peter@cassandra.uucp (Peter Blemel) (12/04/90)
I recently recieved a model 530 with about 80mb of pre-installed software in /usr/sys/preload. After installing all of the stuff, I am ready to remove the preload sources. Lo and behold this isn't a partition, it's a directory! So, all of the installation stuff automatically extended /usr because it wasn't big enough, but now it's got 80mb of allocated space that's basically wasted. ARRGGH. I had already extended the partition to put my /usr/local stuff on it so I don't have any use for this space (but I really could use it in the page file :-( or /u anyway). All of documentation on my loaner machine said "create /usr/lpp.install as a partition so you can remove it and reclaim the space later". Why can't IBM even follow their own advice when they ship the real ones?!?. Oh well, maybe I'll spool news on it. I ceartainly don't have time to reinstall. Peter
matt@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Mathew Accapadi;3-3517) (12/05/90)
In article <1990Dec03.222359.9513@cassandra.uucp> cassandra!peter@yenta.alb.nm.us (Peter Blemel) writes: >I recently recieved a model 530 with about 80mb of pre-installed software >in /usr/sys/preload. After installing all of the stuff, I am ready to remove >the preload sources. Lo and behold this isn't a partition, it's a directory! > >So, all of the installation stuff automatically extended /usr because it wasn't >big enough, but now it's got 80mb of allocated space that's basically wasted. >All of documentation on my loaner machine said "create /usr/lpp.install as a >partition so you can remove it and reclaim the space later". Why can't IBM >even follow their own advice when they ship the real ones?!?. I have recently become involved with preloads, and I griped about this also. While it was too late to do anything about the preloads for the current release, I will be working on trying to get this changed for the next release so that the preload images are put on a separate logical volume. Matt ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mathew Accapadi IBM AWD - Austin, TX Tie 793-3517 ...cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!mathew.austin.ibm.com!matt -----------------------------------------------------------------------
gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone) (12/05/90)
In <4460@awdprime.UUCP> matt@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Mathew Accapadi;3-3517) writes: >While it was too late to do anything about the preloads for >the current release, I will be working on trying to get this changed for the >next release so that the preload images are put on a separate logical volume. I also heard from my IBM salescritter that, meanwhile, they're not preloading software on the 320mb disks anymore (which caused me considerable trouble (i.e. having to re-install from my network server) to get the July update to update.... Cheers to you guys at Austin, and hang in there; you're invaluable. -- Glenn R. Stone gs26@prism.gatech.edu, glenns@eas.gatech.edu ('6000/520 netmgr/server)