On Mon, 31 May 2004, John P. Looney wrote:
> See, I'm scarred. I made loadsa money years ago, upgrading old solaris
> installs to 2.6, in time for the year 2000 bug.
>> You have no idea how much pain it is to upgrade a production system from
> 2.4 on a 15MB root partition to solaris 2.6 (where they recommended a
> gig).
A slightly different problem no?
Minimal root does not mean minimum of space. I always leave a bit
extra, just in case. Also, 1GB recc'd root? The current solaris
installer creates a pretty small root if you leave it to its own
devices:
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 341M 81M 225M 27% /
Another benefit of seperate partitions is ability to, eg, resize
/usr (for systems that can do that kind of thing), indeed, with /usr
on NFS you can resize /usr without rebooting the machine (exportfs -u
on the server, resize, exportfs it again).
> john
regards,
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