not enough space in / for tmp files

[Dave Chamberlin]

I am trying to install STM on my K200 10.20 system. The install analysis fails saying that there is not enough space on / for the installation temporary files, needing 2M more. I don't have 2M available - stand and sbin take up most of the volume. Is there a way to have swinstall use another place for the needed tmp files?

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Dave:

you do not provide us with your bdf output so it is hard to guess if you should have enough space or not.

I would recommend the following:
-if /var/tmp is not a filesystem of its own, create one;
- /tmp should also be its own filesystem.
- search for core files and really large files on the / filesystem and verify that you cannot move them elsewhere.
- you might want to move your /stand/vmunix.prev to a filesystem with enough space (temporarily)
- depending on how much space you have available, you might be able to get swinstall to NOT enforce space restrictions - its under options.

maybe if you give more info it would be easier to point out what to do.

[Jordan Bean]

show us the following

who -r
bdf
cat /etc/fstab

If your booting to single user mode, only / will be mounted. If you indeed have separate filesystems for /stand /tmp /usr /var, then do `mountall` before proceeding with the install.

[Dave Chamberlin]

The / partition contains stand, sbin and etc - they do not have their own mount points. There are no large files or cores. I think I could move etc/lp somewhere else and replace it with a soft link. That would give me about 6M...
thanks.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH · Accepted solution]

Dave, if you ever get a chance to clean up the box, it might be advisable to create separate filesystems for /stand and /tmp and /var - that way you can do work on one filesystem without affecting the others... but your current plan should work fine. you might want to look into using ignite to create a bootable image and rebuilding your system.

Good luck
PS. Do a search for Ignite for more details.

[aziz_1]

Hello,
pls. check:
Check to see if /var/adm/sw/.codewords exists.
ll /var/adm/sw/.codewords
When not - Create the file.
touch /var/adm/sw/.codewords
Try swinstall.
Rgds.