I am running OpenSolaris on a day to day since 2008.05 release. I went through numerous updates, and so far I am running build 106:
dmerle@opensolaris:~$ uname -a
SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_106 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
Although I had one big OpenSolaris partition, this partition was nearly full and prevent me from doing new updates (see this post).
Save space
The trick to regain some space is to remove snapshots :
dmerle@opensolaris:~$ zfs list -t snapshot
NAME
USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rpool@install
20K - 55.5K -
rpool/ROOT@install
15K - 8K -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-10@install
2.02G - 2.48G -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-10@2009-02-04-17:18:04 3.98G - 9.21G -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-10/opt@install
123K - 3.61M -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-10/opt@static:-:2008-08-25-14:39:17 792M
- 3.86G -
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-10/opt@2009-02-04-17:18:04
635M - 3.85G -
rpool/export@install
15K - 19K -
rpool/export/home@install
20K - 21K -
rpool/export/home@28112008
11.1G - 12.3G -
e.g:
#pfexec zfs destroy rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-10@install
Removing the red snapshots did the trick for me. Now I have 12GB free instead of 1,2GB before!
Gparted
I also used Gparted to resize my Windows partition. Gparted is very easy to use. You download the software (~ 95MB), you burn the CD and boot on the CD. The CD is a linux Debian environment and with a graphical interface, you can resize (grow or shrink) any NTFS or FAT partition.
Below what you can see whith gparted
It appears that Gparted does not recognize the OpenSolaris partition : see the white space in sda4. My Data partition (sda2) is shared between Windows XP and OpenSolaris.
Disk Analyzer
You can then run Disk Usage Analyzer (Menu: Applications -> System Tools -> Disk Usage Analyzer)
