srujan4u

 Profile Answers by srujan4u 

• Oct 2nd, 2008

 

If root file system is full, there are two alternates for time being, they are

1. adminstrator can use minfree space and can reduce inode space.
# tunefs -m0 / ( / represents root space)

2. The second method is a bit dangerous , should do it very carefully.

In solaris you can remove swap space using format command , which will free cylinders, now you can use growfs command to increase the root file system. after doing that you need create new file system for swap area.

but it is not advisable....all the time better to use tunefs to free minfree space.

siddharthkalra

 Profile Answers by siddharthkalra 

• May 29th, 2009

 

Another way to solve this is get a new disk with larger amount of disk space than root, then create a mirror of the root.
Once created, detach the mirror.  You may edit the vfstab file to mount the the new disk as root now.
Restart the system, and with this min downtime, the root space would be increased.