Beginner - two simple questions please?

[The Oracle]

Hello,
This is my first post so hello to everyone. I have two questions that I
have been struggling with. I am using release 2.5.1

1. I thought that to configure the IP default gateway, all you needed to do
was to create a file called /etc/defaultgateway (all one word) and put the
address in that file, the address being the only thing in the file. This
does not work though and I have been racking my brains to figure it out. I
have rebooted my machine several times and even invented other names for the
file. No good.

2. How can I find the size of the disk partitions for the varius partitions.
For examplem I put the /var partition on slice 4 but cannot remember the
size of it.

Thanks from a greatful beginner.

Steve

[Tony Walton]

The Oracle wrote:

> Hello,
> This is my first post so hello to everyone. I have two questions that I
> have been struggling with. I am using release 2.5.1
>
> 1. I thought that to configure the IP default gateway, all you needed to do
> was to create a file called /etc/defaultgateway (all one word) and put the
> address in that file, the address being the only thing in the file. This
> does not work though and I have been racking my brains to figure it out. I
> have rebooted my machine several times and even invented other names for the
> file.

looks like the name

/etc/defaultrouter

wasn't among the names you tried. That's what the file should be called :-)

>
> 2. How can I find the size of the disk partitions for the varius partitions.
> For examplem I put the /var partition on slice 4 but cannot remember the
> size of it.

df (or df -k to see the output in Kb)

Or use format/partition/print to see the partition information, or use
prtvtoc to see the same thing. f will show you the size of the
filesystem, which is not the same as the size of the partition since
some of the filesystem is taken up with internal stuff and isn't
available to the user; also df will only show you the sizes of
filesystems that are mounted, so won't show you swap space or other raw
partitions, unallocated space, filesystems that happen not to be mounted
and so on.


prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 for instance.