swinstall command

[Sunny Chen]

Hi, there:
I just want to install a bundle of hp application from cdrom, I use "swinstall", but my problem is the /opt will be full, so I create a new /opt2 and try to install them to /opt2, I don't want to extend the size of /opt. Any good ideas? thanks a lot!

[John Palmer]

swinstall will insist on installing in /opt.

Among other things, you could:-

1. move one (or more) subdirectories into /opt2 and install a soft link in /opt.
2. Mount your /opt filesystem at /opt/ and amend /etc/fstab accordingly

Neither are as clean and tidy as having everything in /opt.

[Steve Sauve]

You could mount another lvol under /opt to take the place of a large directory there. Another option would be to link a directory to another mountpoint (don't know if linking directories to /opt is a great idea though). Not sure why you don't want to extend /opt, but that may be the best choice.

Hope this helps,
Steve

[Andy Monks · Accepted solution]

If you know the directories involved it's possible. I had the same problem with omniback recently.

So, I created a /disk2 filesystem and then did a 'mkdir /disk2/omni'. Then a 'ln -s /disk2/omni/ /opt/omni'

Then the swinstall worked.

But you'll need to know the names of the directories under /opt for this to work.

[Rick Garland]

swinstall will be looking at /opt. Even though you don't want to, to be clean you will need to increase /opt

[Stefan Farrelly]

No, I dont think it is a good idea to create a new /opt2 and try to install there - im note sure you could anyway, swinstall will still try to install to /opt. The preferred option is to increase /opt. If you really cant do this then you could move some directories to a new filesystem and create a symbolic link from /opt/ to //. This would free up some space on /opt and hopefully enough to install your product.

[Antoanetta Naghiu]

You can do:
ln -s /opt2 /opt/opt2
or create a link directly to the application.
If you need space under /opt for patches, I'm afraid you need to free up a bit of space.
You can move, for ex. hpnp stuff under your opt2 if you made the link.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

I would see if anything is in /opt that shouldn't be -- perhaps a stray core file. I would simply lvextend /opt. If you have online JFS you can do this "on-the-fly", otherwise you will need to unmount /opt which generally forces you to do the extension in single-user-mode.

...JRF...

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

SUNNY, THE BEST WAY IS TO DO IT ANDY'S WAY.

[RikTytgat]

Hi,

I agree, but swinstall will still check the free space on /opt unless you use the option

-x enforce_dsa=true

Bye,
Rik

[Andy Monks]

Thanks Chris. It worked for me, however, I only needed omniback and I knew it's directory name.

[Sunny Chen]

Thanks All, the reason I don't want to extend /opt just because I don't want shutdown the server, and the file system is HFS, I got your ideas, thanks a lot.

[Anthony Goonetilleke]

Sorry guys I tend to disagree...
You can install software where ever you want...
When you are in swinstall mark the sofware for installation click on it, then go to the Actions menu, and select "Change Product Location" now you can install it where ever you want even /opt2