On 09/28/09 01:22 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
That seems truly bizarre. Virtualbox recommends 16GB, and after doing an install there's about 12GB free.
There's no way Solaris will install in 4GB if I understand what you are saying. Maybe fresh off a CD when it doesn't have to download a copy first, but the reality is 16GB is not possible unless you don't want ever to to an image update. What version are you running? Have you ever tried pkg image-update? # uname -a SunOS host8 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-2 34G 13G 22G 37% / .... # du -sh /var/pkg/download/ 762M /var/pkg/download/ this after deleting all old BEs and all snapshots but not emptying /var/pkg/download; swap/boot are on different slices. SPARC is similar; snv122 takes 11Gb after deleting old BEs, all snapshots, *and* /var/pkg/downloads; *without* /opt, swap, /var/crash, /var/dump, /var/tmp, /var/run and /export... AFAIK It is absolutely impossible to do a pkg image-update (say) from snv111b to snv122 without at least 9GB free (it says 8GB in the documentation). If the baseline is 11GB, you need 20GB for an install, and that leaves you zip to spare. Obvious reasons include before and after snaps, download before install, and total rollback capability. This is all going to cost some space. I believe there is a CR about this, but IMO when you can get 2TB of disk for $200 it's hard to complain. 32GB of SSD is not unreasonable and 16GB simply won't hack it. All the above is based on actual and sometimes painful experience. You *really* don't want to run out of space during an update. You'll almost certainly end up restoring your boot disk if you do and if you don't, you'll never get back all the space. Been there, done that... Cheers -- Frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
