HPUX 11.0 root volume group file system sizes (RDG)

[HP System Handle Owner]

We are developing a migration document which will incorporate the upgrade to 11 from 10.20.

We may upgrade some servers and install from fresh on others.

My question is :

Can anyone recommend a sensible approach for sizing root file systems like usr, var, stand, /, etc etc etc

I have read many manuals, but they make no recommendation. I am anxious for all servers to contain a similar, sensible vg00 config.

We have servers and 4Gb and 9Gb root disks.

Many thanks

Russell

[federico_3]

For our 11 servers we use the following sizes:

/ 140 MBs
/stand 85 Mbs
/var 1000 Mbs
/var/tmp 200 Mbs
/usr 1000 Mbs
/tmp 400 Mbs
/opt 600 Mbs


Federico

[Rita C Workman]

Everything depends on what your systems are doing...But averaging a few of our systems I came up with the following:

/ 140mb
/stand 95mb
/var 1.5gb (higher on Omniback cell servers)
/usr 1.0gb
/tmp 500mb
/opt 1.2gb
/home 2.0gb (developers save a-l-o-t here)

Hope this helps,
/rcw

[Suhas_2]

/ 140mb
/stand 85mb
/var 1500mb
/usr 1500mb
/tmp 450mb
/opt 1048mb
/home 100mb

Hope this helps....
Suhas ;-)

[John Waller]

This is a bdf command taken from a clean 11.00 install with sept 2000 hwcr1100 xswgr1100 loaded. We also have ignite-ux installed.

/dev/vg00/lvol3 143360 21912 113905 16% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 83733 28990 46369 38% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol7 819200 377449 414684 48% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol6 675840 387582 270259 59% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol5 262144 1173 244665 0% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol4 819200 180295 599008 23% /opt

This will give you an idea of how much space is used within each file system after a basic install

I feel that the bottom line is that it depends on what the system is used for. We never bother with /home as we put users home directories in /u1 which is in vg01. Also our application keeps log files in /tmp but I have seen /tmp on some systems as little as 40Mb in size.
As a general rule I believe /var is likely to incease the most with the addition of patch bundles and log files. /opt and /usr are likely to increase with the addition of extra products. / and /stand probably won't increase much at all.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
It is strongly recommended that instead of an upgrade to 11 that a fresh install is done.
Search the forums and the consensus of opinion is to take this path -

Paula

[Joseph C. Denman]

My systems fall inline with Rita's. As stated before, it all depends on your system.

Make sure you make / large enough. Mine are around 150MB. The other filesystems can always be increased.