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

[Olusegun_Adekun]

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

[PhoneBoy]

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/Support...

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. 

[Olusegun_Adekun]

Thanks a Million.

[the_rock]

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

[dehaasm]

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?

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

[the_rock]

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

[dehaasm]

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?

[the_rock]

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

[dehaasm]

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:

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

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

[dehaasm]

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

[the_rock]

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

Andy

[dehaasm]

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

[the_rock]

What does df -f look like now?

Andy

[dehaasm]

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

[the_rock]

I would be totally comfortable with that for the upgrade.

Andy