[20561] in Athena Bugs
Re: Sun Ultra 5: problems updating to 9.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Aug 6 15:31:52 2002
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:31:50 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200208061931.PAA21430@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
To: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
CC: Athena Bugs list <bugs@MIT.EDU>, Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
In-reply-to: "[20555] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
> Just to follow up on this, the problem with this system became obvious when
> I looked at the disk partitioning. The system has a 4 GB disk that was
> partitioned with /, /usr, /usr/vice/cache and swap all at about 131 MB, and
> a /var partition with about 3.95 GB. It was running out of space trying to
> load things into /usr.
> I decided to do a custom re-install and hope that Athena really didn't need
> the recommended 8 GB for /. Using the advertised minimum size for swap and
> the AFS cache and putting everything else in /, the system managed to come
> up. The disk will be replaced before we get to Athena 10.0. :-)
Those recommendations assume that you have a 9G or bigger disk which
is true of any new machine these days. Your choice of partitioning
should be ok.
> This system is now back up and running with the minor problem that I forgot
> to copy the srvtab file. :-(
> Can I get the old one? Or do I need to ask for a new one to replace it?
> (The srvtab was for both remote access and remote services.)
Nope, you need to request a new one.
--
Jonathon
