On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:59:18 PST stephen bond <sten...@go.com> wrote:
> goal: expand the solaris partition > > I have a disc with XP and Solaris and would like to increase the size > of my Solaris partition (partition here is not the solaris > definition). Gparted shows there is a very small 7mb partition at the > beginning /dev/sda1. does that hold the MBR and what would happen if > I delete that partition. I have sda2 as FAT, which is visible to > solaris, sda3 is NTFS, and then sda4 is osol. it is 15 Gb and osol > tells me I have used 8Gb, but there is only 2Gb left. so when i try > to upgrade it runs out of space and I have to delete rpool/dump it is > interesting to know where is the lost space, but it should be easier > to expand. I have 250Gb of unallocated space following osol. my plan > was to have that as a Linux swap and that add that to rpool. Gparted > won't let me have sda5, though. So I would like to delete sda1 if it > won't ruin everything. Please, comment. If sda1 is only 7mb, you're not going to gain much by deleting it. And it's likely you'll mess up the configuration so the other partitions will be renumbered and it'll turn into a big mess. Basically, with linux (and other OS's ?) you can have up to 4 'primary' partitions, then any others will be considered extended partitions. (Though I have a 10 year old pc that will only allow 2 partitions!) Thus sda4 would become your extended partition and sda5, 6, 7, etc. could then be added. Leaving sda4 as a primary partition (on which osol is housed) leaves you no way to expand after that. What you may want to do is back up all of your important stuff on sda4 (documents, emails, etc), and then make copies of any important stuff on sda4 somewhere else just to be sure (like a usb drive and a cd) and then delete sda4, create it as an extended partition and then install osol again on a larger sda5 that you create after you make sda4 an extended partition. If that makes sense.... ? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
