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Netbackup Appliance upgrade 3.1.1 to 3.1.2

marvin_z
Level 2

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody run into the issue where netbackup upgrade will not install due to not enough free space on /boot.  I am trying to upgrade my Netbackup 5230 appliance from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 and currently boot has 129 MB of free space but the upgrade script tells me i need 140 MB to proceed.  Below is the content of the root:

***********************************************   total 49M
-rw------- 1 root root 512 Jan 22 2014 backup_mbr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 22 2014 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K May 10 2010 boot.readme
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106K Oct 24 2016 config-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138K Jan 14 2018 config-3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 1.0K Aug 9 2016 efi
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 1.0K Oct 23 2017 grub
drwx------. 5 root root 1.0K Jun 14 11:55 grub2
-rw------- 1 root root 39M Jun 14 11:13 initramfs-3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64.img
-r-------- 1 root root 32K Oct 23 2017 ks.cfg
drwx------. 2 root root 12K Jan 22 2014 lost+found
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 132K Apr 24 2014 message.changed
-rw------- 1 root root 69 Oct 23 2017 old_os_initrd
-rw------- 1 root root 47 Oct 23 2017 old_os_kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 287K Jan 14 2018 symvers-3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 4.5K Feb 18 2016 system
-rw------- 1 root root 3.1M Jan 14 2018 System.map-3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.7M Jan 14 2018 vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64

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Any idea what can be removed from /boot to move this upgrade forward?

Thanks

4 REPLIES 4

kenneth_hansen1
Level 4
Partner Accredited

Hi @marvin_z,

I dont know if you have fixed this issue yet, but as you might know the 3.1.2 RPM was pulled due to an issue discovered.
To your wuestion, you should be able to use standard linux command to extend the partition by a few MB to solve this.

/Kenneth

Hi @kenneth_hansen1

Thanks so much for reply, i heard that upgrade was pulled from support engineer and he also told me that unfortuantelly the only way to extend my partition would be to do reinstall of the appliance which i am not keen on doing unfortunatelly.  Can you share that command with me that would allowed me to resize /root partition?  I am not that verse in linux.

Thanks so much for your help.

kenneth_hansen1
Level 4
Partner Accredited

Hi Marvin_Z,

Sorry to say that I'm not a linux expert and if Veritas suport team dont want to change it. You might be in trouble.
Only advice I can give you is to lookup a linux expert to assist.
I did find a few online threads from RedHad explaing rezise partition, but use with caution you might break the appliance.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/storage_administration...

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/199573

https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3078701

 

 

Two things to try before you go into the wildly-unsupported area of Linux commands:

1) Grab the Upgrade Analyzer package for v3.1.2 from https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100040055.html and run it. I've seen that mysteriously clean up /boot before for some reason.

2) Reboot the appliance.

 

Best of luck, and feel free to log a case complaining about the default size of their /boot filesystems, it's been a pain for a while now. =)