E.3 Disk Space

To configure the disk space requirement:

  1. With the disk space requirement selected, select the root location.

    The two options are SYS Volume and Volume. To conserve disk space usage on NetWare servers, do not select the sys: volume if you have other volumes with available disk space.

    IMPORTANT:Do not use literal volume/drive names, such as the forward slash (/) character, when you are sending to multiple platforms. For example if you specify the / character for Linux in a software package, and the Software Package Distribution also gets sent to Windows servers, Windows will recognize the / as meaning its root location and the files intended only for the Linux servers would be installed on the Windows servers. To solve this problem, do one of the following:

    a. Use variables for disk space locations, which allows you to send to multiple platforms.

    or

    b. Use the Operating System requirement in conjunction with the Disk Space requirement to confine the Distribution to only the server platforms where the literal disk space location exists.

    Examples of literal locations you can provide:

    NetWare:     sys:   data:

    Windows:     C:\   \\myserver\data\shared_folder

    Linux or Solaris:     /   /usr   /usr/data   /usr/data   /etc   /mnt/files

    For Linux and Solaris servers, it is any path that identifies a disk partition.

  2. If you selected Volume, provide the volume’s name.

  3. Select the condition:

       Less Than    Less Than or Equal To    Greater Than    Greater Than or Equal To

  4. Specify the free disk space needed in megabytes for the condition selected.

    It is important that the free disk space you specify exists at the location you specified in Step 1.