I have also occasionally had that kind of problem. I'm under VM, so I IPL the guest and specify another 512 MB of virtual storage. Run my maintenance. Then reipl with the normal amount of memory for that guest.
Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:32 AM, van Sleeuwen, Berry < [email protected]> wrote: > Tom, > > What part in the install complains? Is it too low on /tmp or /var space or > too low on / or /usr? And is it in lvm or not? LVM can be extended quite > easy, a single minidisk might be a bit harder to extend. > > As a general rule: > > In the directory add the disk to the guest. > > On the guest (as root). The instructions might vary a bit depending on > distribution and/or version. > > vmcp link <guestname> <vdev> <vdev> w > chccwdev -e <vdev> > > Cat /proc/dasd/devices -> shows the 200 disk, note the /dev/dasd<xx> name. > > dasdfmt -b 4096 /dev/dasd<xx> > fdasd -a /dev/dasd<xx> > > Now you can use the disk in the filesysystem or assign to lvm. > > Standalone: > mke2fs /dev/dasd<xx>1 > mount /dev/dasd<xx>1 /mnt > > In lvm you need to pvcreate, vgextend, lvextend and resizefs the new space. > > If you want the disk to remain after a reboot, add it into udev or zipl. > And add it to /etc/fstab to mount it at boot. > > Regards, Berry. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom > Huegel > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 5:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Expanding disk space. > > > This is a very basic question, but I am a basic LINUX novice. > When attempting to install updates I get a message that I don't have > enough disk space. How do I increase the space? I have another 3390-9 I can > give to the guest LINUX vm, but how do I tell LINUX to use it? > > Thanks.. > Tom > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
