Boot Volume

[Tamer Shaalan]

Hi all guys,

I am trying to install hp-ux 11.11 on a k-class machine, but after configuring all parameters ( volume group disks, file systems sizes...etc) it gives me that:

##[the BOOT volume (may br root volume) is more than 2GB, the system will not be able to boot with this configuration. please select boot volume less than 2GB]##

what is that? I have selected root disk with 17.3 GB. I am already have another machines running 11.11 with only 4 disks each of 73 GB!!! how to fix that. Our Application requires large volume groups & file systems( for example / should be 5GB , /var should be 7 GB and so on.

all repies will be appreciated.

Tamer.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You are probably running old firmware so your first task should be to check and update the firmware BUT a 5GB / filesystem is ludicrous. At most it should be 300MB and that is extrememly generous. Typically 150 MB or so is all that / should ever be and that will still leave plenty of headroom. No application should ever be writing in the root filesystem. You should be setting up additional filesystems for this; whether they are in filesystems mounted directly below / or in / itself should be completely invisible to the application.

[lawrenzo]

why would you want such a large / filesystem?

The normal standards for filesystems in UNIX are listed below where data should reside (use this as a guide)

/var is used to write application logs,
/opt usually were application binaries reside
/home for user accounts
/usr system files
/tmp for tempory files.

if / is so large you may have difficulty running the ignite which back's up vg00 which is used for recovering a server.

lawrenzo