Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. Growing a soft partition and resizing filesystem in. Solaris 10 and older versions contain many restrictions on what can be a separate partition. As far as i know patches were never made available for that. More advanced attributes might be extended attributes like os2 hpfs, encryption keys, etc. What information is stored in the sun connection registration profile. For eample you have a disk slice 1 gb, and you want to divide that slice become 10 areas each with 100 mb size. When solaris 9 gets released, the solstice disksuite name will change to solaris volume manager svm and it will be bundled in with solaris 9. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr. What replaces the solaris patch manager application that was available in previous releases of.
My primary bf partition is on partition 2, df reveals. Keyspan and prolific usb serial drivers are available in oracle solaris 11 and in oracle solaris 10 update 2 and later. Solaris live upgrade to resize filesystems unix my first love. So unless vbox can issue the correct grow command to solaris then it is doubtful this will happen, also the root file system has to be grown offline i. Store replicas on any unused partition or on partitions that are also part of a. Out hdd total size is 300gb part tag flag cylinders size blocks 0 root wm 3565 6805 20.
You must check very carefully that your new partitioning scheme wont break the system. Which nvram variable would enable extended post output, when set to true. To add space to a soft partition, use the following form of the metattach command. Swap needs to be in a single partition with no holes.
Solaris 10 system administration exam prep 2 pearson it. Soft partitioning was introduced in solaris 8 with svm product patch 10869306. Need advise on how to increase the size of a partition on solaris 10 server post the installation process. How to expand a soft partition solaris volume manager. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. The root partition is usually the first partition but in some cases, the swap is located before the root partition. A soft partition is made up of one or more extents. Svm software provides mechanisms to configure physical slices of harddrive into logical volumes.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Device start block dbase reloc c0t10d0s0 0 no yes extent start block block. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in. Sun clusters adding new disk and extending filesystem. If the print book includes a cdrom, this content is not included within the ebook version. How to expand a soft partition from the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node. I read somewhere that you cant install solaris 10 on an extended partition. Parted magic, gparted live cdrom, acronis etc ive also tried writing out the partiton table with. Maintaining soft partitions solaris volume manager administration. How to resize ext3 partitions without losing data page 2. Is there a file that i can use to help to distinquish between the two.
Find answers to how to remove hard disk partition table in solaris from the expert community at experts exchange. Realtime and historical data various views components, partitions, time frames. The solaris 10 system administrator certification exam prep 2 is the ideal book for both new and seasoned system administrators. Now we are not seeing any hard errors or soft errors which we reported earlier.
Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method. But soft partition utility was not added on the first release of sds on solaris 8, later they developed and introduced in solaris 9 with soft partition functionality. Some people recommend a seaparte home partition, which eases distribution upgrades and backups. Solaris filesystem configuration ufs, zfs, disk partitioning, raid. This was originally worked out when i had to resize a solaris 10 partition under vmware, but it applies equally to native solaris installs too. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The solaris volume manager svm is a free component of solaris 9 and solaris 10. Soft partitions can be expanded by adding space from the underlying volume or slice. Solaris volume manager svm adding mirror to a metadevice housing soft partitions. Hi, i need to extend a soft partition from 20g to 100g.
It offers classroomstyle training by one of the best and wellknown authors in the solaris world, bill calkins. Since you cant resize a mounted partition, boot from a live media, open a terminal and issue the command sudo swapoff a to insure the swap partition on the drive you are working with isnt in use. Part 1 accessing the solaris partition from within windows. On solaris 10, the solaris patch 12022206 is a minimum version that has. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here. In the patch system test lab, we currently have solaris 10 systems with 7gb used in var and this will continue to grow over the lifetime of solaris 10. Get the filesystem info, that needs to be extended.
It is therefore in the way when you enlarge your ntfs partition to hold ubuntu. Then yes, youre running an old solaris express development release. How to create soft partition soft partition are used to divide physical disk partition slice into smaller area. I have had a real field day today with disk spaces in solaris the first one was pretty simple being a normal ufs file system. Root now needs to be 8gb because patches get the size over 4gb. If slice 1 exists, but is not used, then we can still grow this root filesystem. Soft partitioning allows for a disk to be subdivided into many partitions which are controlled and maintained by software, thereby removing the limitation of the number of partitions on a disk. Oracle does provide a procedure called transitioning an oracle solaris 10 instance to an oracle solaris 11 system, enabling you to port your solaris 10 global or nonglobal zone to solaris 11.
Hello folks, greetings, i am in need of extending the partition for one of my suse linux enterprise server 11. Ufsunix file system is the default file system for solaris. Extend slice 0, 1 and 3 with some amount of cylinders. Solaris volume manager svm how to create soft partitions. This book will give you the insight you need into the newest certification exams for system administrators, the 310200 and the. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained softpanorama.
Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. Solved increase the size of existing partition on solaris 10. However, the soft partitioning functionality was released in patch 10869306 for sds 4. Do not use soft partitions on operating system file systems. He submitted some patches to improve relatime, and noted about atime. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Which command can analyze the patch requirements of a system and. Jul 02, 2015 solaris volume managersolstice disksuite. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. When no other logical volumes have been built on a soft partition, you can add space. You must load the corresponding firmware for your platform.
Apr 17, 2011 in disksuite or solaris volume manager, an extra step must be taken when physically replacing a disk that contained soft partitions. With the increase in capacity of disks, this limitation has become a severe restriction. In this example we have a devsda1 partition with about 6gb of size, and right behind that partition we have about 4gb of unused space. What i need to know is what do i do next on the solaris 10 server i have so that it will see the increase in size.
You must manually expand the file system with the growfs command. If there is insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. Soft partitioning will, of course, be part of the base functionality of that release. Pl2303 chip based adapters and keyspan usa19hs adapter are available as part of oracle solaris 10 update 2. Im not sure by your question if you mean a logical volume using a hard soft partition, or if you really mean a globallocal zone. The firmware will contain the alom cmt, post, obp, and hypervisor updates. Copy partition table to new disk shafiee van weiringen. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Which partitions are created by default when installing the solaris 10. Also, experience with the disksuite or solaris volume manager products and their.
You can create a soft partition with following steps. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Verify you have the latest patch sets ref info doc 72099 on sunsolve iii. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. This article discusses a method to read and write data from solaris partitions from within windows or linux. Please tell me how to increase size of mounted filesystem in solaris 10. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches.
We want to add those 4gb of unused spave to our devsda1 partition this doesnt work of these 4gb dont come right behind our devsda1 partition, but are elsewhere on the hard disk. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. Choose the soft partition that you want to expand, then choose action. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. I have solaris 10 and cannot work out how to view partitions with fdisk. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. In this case you will have to unmount the partition and redo this the step above. Solaris 10 enables logging of the filesystem by default. In my patch system test lab, we currently have solaris 10 systems with 7gb used in var and this will continue to grow over the lifetime of solaris 10. Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using.
Mapping partitions to separate pairs of physical disk to minimize load of each pair in case of. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. Ubuntu needs two partitions at least root partition, and swap but it can handle more if needed. Disk is currently 16gb, need to extend to 40gb, its a virtual machine hosted under vsphere 5.
Solaris 10 system administration exam prep 2 informit. Review the disk space associated with a file system. I cant see what the first has to do with oracle licensing, but the second very well might be a factor. The machine had a 20gb virtual disk and i had initially allocated about 11gb to the root system. Solaris uses vfsvirtual file system architecture which provides a standard interface for different file system types and enables basic operations such as reading, writing and listing files. I would like to increase the size of the partition by reducing exporthome. After a volume that contains a ufs file system is expanded meaning that more space is added, you also need to expand the file system in order to recognize the added space. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Concepts of metasets in svm and multipating in solaris.
Can someone let me know the steps to increa the unix and linux forums. Creating soft partitions how to create a soft partition before you begin. How to increase size of mounted filesystem in solaris 10. Herein i will present the procedure on how to add a new disk to an svm which is part of sun cluster 3. Svm, solaris troubleshooting,sun cluster,root mirroring, soft partition,dns,nfs,file system issue root mirroring solaris volume manager in the solaris 9 and 10 os saturday, august 8, 2009 at 8. This soft partition is already assigned to a guest ldom. Compaq4004 cyl 2174 alt 2 hd 128 sec 128 cannot set disk type while it has mounted partitions. When no other logical volumes have been built on a soft partition, you can add space to the soft partition. I will be able to extend the virtual lun from the vshphere console but can some one help me to find out whether it is possible to extend the root partition online without downtime. How to mirror soft partitions in solaris 10 oracle community. Resizing a logical volume on oracle enterprise linux oel 5. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience.
Unfortunately windows can not read solaris partitions. How to extend root partition on suse enterprise server 11. Now we will start our installation of cpu patch cluster activity patching activity. How to replace a disk which contained soft partitions by ramdev published february 4, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 when trying to access a soft partition after a disk replacement, the metareplace command or any direct io to a soft partition will fail with the following types of errors. All chapters have been updated to reflect the solaris 0508 updates including detailed coverage of the x86 platform. Svm how to create soft partitions solaris volume manager svm. An extent describes the parts of the physical disk that make up the soft partition. Increase the size of disk partition being used by metadevice. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular quarter. Solaris 10 update 3 hw 1106 or solaris express build 57 or higher installed.
Nov 27, 20 there was a question in my post on linux partitioning with fdisk on centos 6. Rightclick your extended partition and choose resizemove. Better to build a soft partition and add as needed to that. Use only raid1 metadevices for root, usr, var, and opt. However, you will end up with a nonglobal zone, even if your original system only had a single zone and if you use solaris but dont know what. Check the configuration guidelines for soft partitions use one of the following methods to create a soft partition. Here is a good document on the socalled softpartitions kind of logical volumes. How to mirror soft partitions in solaris 10 807557 jul 16, 2009 8. Description extend filesytem oracleudlsapdata1 in a local zone by 5gb solution 1. Disk and filesystems management in solaris softpanorama. Oct 19, 2009 this is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. This limit was raised to 16 terabytes in the solaris 10 os. During the solaris 10 extended support period, the updates to the recommended patchsets will contain patches that require a solaris 10 extended support contract, so the solaris 10 recommended patchsets will also require a solaris 10 extended support contract during this period. Create soft partitions to move soft partitions to, use block size to match size exactly.
Solaris disk repartitioning is comparably much easier then windows and any other operating systems unless you are trying to repartition system partitions like. Hi, i need to increase a veritas filesystem i have currently mounted on a solaris 10 server. Growing a soft partition and resizing filesystem in solaris. Filesytem extension of a local zone is always performed on global zone. Creating partition on unpartitioned space in sun solaris 10. My solved increase the size of existing partition on solaris 10.
You would first need to create some free space after the root partition. Because i was originally considering installing solaris in linuxs place not that im sick of linux, but because of a lack of free space on my drive. Solaris files system extension in local zone unix drizzle. Solaris 10 kernel patches looks hard, but it isnt oracle. Solaris x86 extend disk the unix and linux forums hq. Solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. In earlier days svm solaris volume manager called as solstice disk suite sds which is available on solaris 8, 9, and 10. Linux disk partitioning fdisk, parted this article discusses the disc partitioning utilities available linux, with specific reference to the information needed for the rhcsa ex200 and rhce ex300 certification exams. Expanding a file system using the growfs command solaris. This new guide is still the best source i know of to study for the exam.
We can resize the lun on the netapp filer no problem. Upgrading disksuite soft partitions are only available on disksuite v4. If you have insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. Increase the size of existing partition on solaris 10. Remember that soft partitions are logical divisions of a physical slice partition on the disk. Soft partitioning in solaris 10 does anyone know of a good way to determine, if an oracle database is installed and running within a hard versus a soft partitioned zone. How to access a solaris partition from windows or linux. I dont think that solaris will automatically grow the file system as this cannot be set anywhere within the os. Some of these restrictions include inability to boot, install, patch, or use live upgrade in some cases. Jan 18, 2012 creating partition on unpartitioned space in sun solaris 10. Qlogic cna or oracle branded qlogic cna, available on the oracle soft. Therefore you can not read the data from a solaris partition from within windows on a pc with dual boot solaris and. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release.
This should be true if youre using vmware, and for the majority of solaris installations. In solaris you can change disk partition using format utility. Free space is located and used to extend the partition. Our reader asked if it is possible to extend an existing linux non lvm partition without loosing its data here is a post on how to resize partition and filesystem with fdisk and resize2fs. All other volumes can be expanded by adding slices. Can someone let me know the steps to increase soft partition so guest ldom can recognize the new space. The way to do this is, we reencapsulate the unencapsulated rootmirror disk under svm and mirror it with the original root disk. Interesting facts about soft partitions soft partitioning was introduced in solaris 8 with svm product patch 10869306. Additionally, the soft partitions feature was added to the base disksuite product via a product patch. Keyspan usa49wlc adapter is supported in oracle solaris 11 and in oracle solaris 10 update 3 and later releases.
This book will give you the insight you need into the newest certification exams for system administrators, the 310200 and the 310202. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node. Help pls iostat show me updated disk size, but in format i cant choose auto configure options t the unix and linux forums. I highly recommend upgrading to a current release, either solaris 10 update 9 or solaris 11 express. Well i need to create partition in my sun solaris 10. Soft partition configuration information is written in two places. Check prerequisites for creating solaris volume manager components. You cannot shrink a filesystem and in special you cannot from the beginning. Soft partitions are implemented by new kernel driver. The documentation from oracle is your best friend when it comes to solaris questions the short answer is that pkg update or pkg update accept will update solaris to the most recent packages available from the ips repositories you have enabled on your system the long answer. In other words, although you may be running disksuite v4.
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