Hi Mark,
Mark R. Bowyer wrote:
> I had this problem when I ran out of ZFS partition space, so it wasn't
> able to copy the data in the promotion. This was on a multi-boot laptop
> with only 10GB set aside for OpenSolaris. After a few updates, it used
> up nearly all the disk and I'm now stuck booting to the BE before the
> update, unable to activate and clean up the latest one.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris
7.6G 3.2G 4.4G 42% /
swap 448M 740K 447M 1% /etc/svc/volatile
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
7.6G 3.2G 4.4G 42% /lib/libc.so.1
swap 447M 8.0K 447M 1% /tmp
swap 447M 44K 447M 1% /var/run
rpool/ROOT/opensolaris/opt
4.4G 3.7M 4.4G 1% /opt
rpool/export 4.4G 19K 4.4G 1% /export
rpool/export/home 4.4G 21M 4.4G 1% /export/home
rpool 4.4G 60K 4.4G 1% /rpool
rpool/ROOT 4.4G 18K 4.4G 1% /rpool/ROOT
> I'm waiting for the next CD image, and will then repartition and
> reinstall from scratch, I think.
>
> But check how much space you have left, and whether there's any
> snapshots you can clear out to make room? I'd be surprised if you went
> straight from install to update, though. How much space did you
> partition for it?
Yes, it was straight install + upgrade to see how smooth the process is.
In fact it's a scratchpad 10G inside Parallels so I don't mind starting
from scratch with a bigger hard drive.
> Ta,
> Mark.
thanx,
Martin
>
> Martin Man wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have installed fresh opensolaris 2008.05 and tried to image-update it
>> to latest snv_95 according to the instructions given here:
>>
>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/rn3/image-update/
>>
>> I have successfully performed all steps, however last command filed like
>> this (after enabling BE_PRINT_ERR=true):
>>
>> # beadm activate opensolaris-1
>> set_canmount: failed to promote dataset (rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-1)
>> be_activate: failed to set canmount dataset property
>> beadm: Unable to activate opensolaris-1
>>
>>
>> I have tried to googe for help but haven't found any solution,
>>
>> thanx for your help,
>> Martin
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