Re: 7.3 upgrade & disk space requirement

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Remember that the basis of these drive selections came from real 
hardware as Jim mentioned some posts back. The 70G minimum came with i 
7.2 because there was no possible way to install i 7.2 onto a 35GB 
Drive. This was because there was no hardware supported at i 7.2 that 
allowed SCSI drives and there are no 35GB SAS Drives. (Ask Jim Buck! :-) 
) So they said: "70GB Min." Then guys like Pete and I pummeled them 
because on our virtual partitions for iDevCloud we suddenly had to have 
a load source as big as an entire partition! And then it's just one 
drive. So they allowed 35GB with TR1.

I believe your second scenario is correct. When I load a new partition 
with four drives for iDevCloud I see that 35GB Drive around 40% full 
with the remaining drives starting to fill with QSYS, QGPL, QUSRSYS.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 6/1/2017 7:44 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> I'm really not sure why they freak out about the 35GB drives.
>
> All my lpars are running 7.3.
> When I run PRTDSKINF *SYS I will see
>
>                                                 % of         Size in
> Description                                     Disk     1,000,000 bytes
> Licensed Internal Code                           .22            8047.83
>
> That's only 8GB.
>
> But maybe they start adding other stuff to that.
>                                                 % of         Size in
> Description                                     Disk     1,000,000 bytes
> Licensed Internal Code                           .22            8047.83
> System internal objects                          .21            7575.43
> And, at 15.5 GB I can easily see why the 17GB drives had to go.
>
> But maybe they throw on more...
> Licensed Internal Code                           .22            8047.83
> System internal objects                          .21            7575.43
> QSYS                                             .15            5401.97
> That's 21GB.
>
> I'm willing to bet big that this next item is scattered all over numerous
> drives though
> Other IBM libraries                              .69           25344.10
>
> System/36 had a catalog function which would tell you such things.
>
>
> Rob Berendt