root, swap, boot, dump size limit

[martin_215]

any clue on filesystem size limits on root,boot,swap and dump volumes in hpux 11i

i could find minimum sizes recommended but not the max

thanks

[Patrick Wallek]

root and boot do not need to be very large.

root should never grow once the system is installed. /stand should also not change a whole lot. Somewhere between 256 and 512 MB will be more than enough. The same goes for /stand.

Pri swap depends on how you want to configure your own system. Generally about 2GB of primary swap, plus either other secondary or turning on swapmem_on will work for you.

I don't know that there is really a max, but more of reasonable sizing guidelines.

[bhoopathi_1]

Basically, root,boot and swap needs to be on contigous LVs. So the maximum size of these depends on the size of the VG (probably VG00 - root VG).

[KAT_5]

Swap space is used in place of physical memory when the system need more memory that it has. also it is used for crash dump of memory.

Swap area shoulde be more than physical memory size . perfer to be double the memory size.
In Hp-ux 11 boot area more than 2 MB of disk space .