Upgrading to HP-UX 11i

[Bruce Baillie]

I have 14 C3600 workstations that have 9GB drives with HP-UX 11.00 and I need to install HP-UX 11i. I tested this once awhile ago and the OS will fit but no room for my application. The application needs about 4GB. I can get 18GB or 36GB drives. Can anyone think why the 18GB will not be suitable?

[Paul Sperry]

I'd go with the biggest diver I could get my hands on. It seems to me not matter how much space I have my users find a way to fill it up. We use our unix servers mainly for oracle and the databases just keep getting bigger and bigger.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

I would go for the 36GB drive. The previous statement about users finding ways to eat up disk space is so very true.

I have 11.23 installed on an 18GB drive. Here are my VG00 LV sizes:

/dev/vg00/lvol3 524288 200400 321416 38% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 298928 99432 169600 37% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8 3145728 1049952 2079712 34% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7 4194304 1983904 2193168 47% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol6 262144 165456 95984 63% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol5 3145728 2481416 659168 79% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol4 524288 228448 293632 44% /home

In addition to this I have 2GB of swap configured on VG00/LVOL2. After all of this, I have about 3.5GB left.

[Geoff Wild]

As long as the hardware supports it then you should be fine.

Rdgs...Geoff

[A. Clay Stephenson]

If this were me, I would leave the 9GB drive in each box and use it for vg00 (the OS) and then add a 2nd drive for data/applications. This makes for a much cleaner and more easily upgradable box. This was always my method of setting up workstations.

[Sheriff Andy]

I recommend the same as Paul. Your filesystems will fill up pretty fast with the 18GB disks.

[Bruce Baillie]

Great advice, thanks to all.....