Below is a list of the file system on my Sun system. How can I transfer more disk space from the "/space" partition to the "/" partition with out rebuilding?
When this box was built, someone took Sun's default layout. This puts /var, /usr, and /opt all in root. I think that all 3 are a mistake, but /var is especially bad. Anyone can create files in /var/tmp.
Make sure that you don't have a lot of junk in /var. Have you cleaned it up?
This shows you that you have no volume manager at all.
It's going to be quiet hard to change this. It can only be done using "format" and increase/decrease the specified slice.
I strongly recommend to not do this. It will not be safe to do. As Perderabo already told. It's not the best install. Please see if you can re-install or else add an extra root-disk.
also Veritas Volume manager should be free of use for the rootdg (rootdisks).
based on your df output you could link directories to /space like /usr /opt. i would recommend to do this in single user mode or even better with a live-cd-os. be carefull: you have to keep the permissions otherwise your system will never come up. i would work with find and cpio.....
I finally got a chance to use your suggestion Pressy. It worked great. I used it on another machine that had no room left in /var so I used your solution to transfer /var/sadm to /. I do have a question though. what if i want to do that with /var. when you try and delete /var it will not allow it so then you cannot create the symbolic link.