saila@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Andrew Marriott) (11/26/90)
G'day, I have been told that 3.3 will lop approx 7-8 megabytes from a 200M bytedisk due to (?) partioning, file system differences, none_of_the_above, etc. Since we are currently running 3.2.1 on PI's with standard disks and run pretty full (NFS,YP), we are worried about losing 7-8 Mbytes from each disk in a change over. Could I have some response from SGI re this. Perhaps I have been misinformed or perhaps I have misunderstood. ta muchly. saila Andrew Marriott. --------------------------------------------+---------------------------------- | School of Computer Science, ACSNet: saila@cutmcvax.oz | Curtin University of Technology, UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!cutmcvax!saila | Kent Street, ARPA: saila%cutmcvax.oz@uunet.UU.NET | Bentley | Western Australia, 6102 --------------------------------------------+---------------------------------- -- Andrew Marriott. --------------------------------------------+---------------------------------- | School of Computer Science, ACSNet: saila@cutmcvax.oz | Curtin University of Technology, UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!cutmcvax!saila | Kent Street, ARPA: saila%cutmcvax.oz@uunet.UU.NET | Bentley | Western Australia, 6102 --------------------------------------------+----------------------------------
olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (11/27/90)
In <saila.659627961@cutmcvax> saila@cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Andrew Marriott) writes: | I have been told that 3.3 will lop approx 7-8 megabytes from a 200M bytedisk due to (?) partioning, file system differences, none_of_the_above, etc. | Since we are currently running 3.2.1 on PI's with standard disks and run pretty | full (NFS,YP), we are worried about losing 7-8 Mbytes from each disk in a change over. You won't lose any more than you would have under 3.1, unless you choose to re-partition your disk, in which case the volume header will (probably) be made 1 cylinder larger; this is to account for symmon (the kernel symbolic debugger) being shipped as an optional subsystem starting in 3.2. As far as how much more (or less) disk space is required in 3.3 vs 3.2, that depends on just what products and subsystems you install, but in general there is little variation. Some subsystems (such as 4Dgifts) are larger because more examples have been added. some other subsystems have become larger also. Some subsystems have become substantially smaller because parts have been broken out into new subsystems. It is therefore difficult to say just how much more (or less) disk space you will have after upgrading. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.