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Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

Olusegun_Adekun — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:22:57 GMT

Hi All,

Am looking for documentation from Checkpoint regarding Disk Space Requirement for Upgrades.

Am planning to upgrade Firewall from R81.10 to R81.20.

Kind Regards,

Olu

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

PhoneBoy — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:31:00 GMT

Disk space requirements are documented in the Release Notes: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R81.20/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R81.20_RN/Content/Topics-RN/Supported-Upgrade-Paths.htm?tocpath=Supported%20Upgrade%20Paths%7C_____0#Supported_Upgrade_Paths

Root has to have at least 20GB free for an upgrade to succeed.
There also needs to be enough unallocated space to take a snapshot of the root partition.

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

the_rock — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:31:01 GMT

Phoneboy is 100% right, thats an official doc. I will say though I had done upgrades in the lab with less than 10 GB free in root partition and worked fine, BUT, I would NOT recommend you take that risk in production, no way. var/log partition, I like to have at least 30 GB available. You can always delete the package afterwards from /var/log/CPda/repository

Best regards,

Andy

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

Olusegun_Adekun — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:40:35 GMT

Thanks a Million.

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:43:24 GMT

Can i add to this in R81.20 i see the following in lvm_manager meaning that by default a 22GB partition is reserved for upgrades? So no need to extend the root?

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

the_rock — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:19:20 GMT

Yes, definitely you can. 20 is fine, as long as there is enough space left in /. What I mean, what is UNALLOCATED, that you can reassign. Makes sense?

Andy

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:58:46 GMT

there is 11GB left in root and i am unable to add the remaining 6GB to it, i a only able to add it to the log partition within lvm_manager. but apparently the snapshot creation is performed in upgrade reserved space does this mean that root is big enough to perform in place upgrade?

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

the_rock — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:14:55 GMT

Just to make sure, so if you are in maintenance mode and you select option to add more disk space to / dir, it does not let you add anything?

Even if thats the case, 11 GB I would say is good enough. On average, from my experience, root may "shrink" just a little bit, so from 11 GB, after you upgrade, yours might show 9 or 9.5 GB free (my best educated guess).

I would still do this in the lab first, but I can tell you last time I did this, mine went from / free 7.8 GB in R81.10 to 6.6 free in R81.20 after upgrade.

Hope that helps.

Andy

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:25:08 GMT

LVM overview
============
Size(GB) Used(GB) Configurable Description
lv_current 20 9 yes Check Point OS and products
lv_log 43 8 yes Logs volume
upgrade reserved 22 N/A no Reserved space for version upgrade
swap 150 N/A no Swap memory volume
unallocated space 6 N/A no Unused space
------- ----
total 241 N/A no Total size
lv_current Logical Volume was selected for size modification.
===================================
lv_current size can be between 21G to 22G.
Enter the new size(GB) or leave blank to cancel:

Resizing lv_log Logical Volume
==============================
lv_log size can be between 44G to 49G.
Enter the new size(GB) or leave blank to cancel:

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:26:19 GMT

so i can add1/2 GB to root and 5GB to log

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

the_rock — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:27:17 GMT

Seems from the output you can do so and if it lets you, personally, I would do it.

Andy

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:45:04 GMT

i added 2GB to the root and it also added 3GB to the upgrade reserved which is now 25GB weird

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

the_rock — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:47:39 GMT

What does df -f look like now?

Andy

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

dehaasm — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:00:46 GMT

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_current 22G 9.2G 13G 42% /
/dev/sda2 291M 52M 225M 19% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log 43G 12G 32G 26% /var/log
tmpfs 7.8G 21M 7.7G 1% /dev/shm

Re: Disk Space Requirement for R81.10 to R81.20 Upgrade r any Upgrade at all

the_rock — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:02:44 GMT

I would be totally comfortable with that for the upgrade.

Andy