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‎Mar 16, 2009
05:01 PM
Forcing the installer to check for extra disk space
Hi,
In my installer initially the required disk space is 800MB which IA checks for but I want 10GB space for the complete installation to be done since the installer creates new EAR files & initially IA is not aware of this.
Tried to increase the required disk space by setting the variable $DEVELOPER_DISK_SPACE_ADDITIONAL$ to 10GB but it is not working.
Have anyone used this before?
Thanks
Md
In my installer initially the required disk space is 800MB which IA checks for but I want 10GB space for the complete installation to be done since the installer creates new EAR files & initially IA is not aware of this.
Tried to increase the required disk space by setting the variable $DEVELOPER_DISK_SPACE_ADDITIONAL$ to 10GB but it is not working.
Have anyone used this before?
Thanks
Md
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‎Mar 16, 2009
06:54 PM
Quoting from the IA manual:
10 GB = 10,737,418,240 bytes
Have you set $DEVELOPER_DISK_SPACE_ADDITIONAL$ = 10737418240 and it didn't work?
$DEVELOPER_DISK_SPACE_ADDITIONAL$ This variable specifies an arbitrary additional value, as a string representing the additional bytes, that the Check Disk Space action will add to the computed required disk space for the installation. By default this variable has a value of zero. Developers may set this variable.
10 GB = 10,737,418,240 bytes
Have you set $DEVELOPER_DISK_SPACE_ADDITIONAL$ = 10737418240 and it didn't work?
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‎Mar 16, 2009
10:30 PM
Yes.That is how I set the install variable.Am I doing anything wrong in my implementation?
All I have is a SetInstallAnywhereVariable where $DEVELOPER_DISK_SPACE_ADDITIONAL$ =100000000000.
All I have is a SetInstallAnywhereVariable where $DEVELOPER_DISK_SPACE_ADDITIONAL$ =100000000000.
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‎Mar 24, 2009
11:54 PM
The developer disk space variable worked finally!!Thanks!
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‎Mar 25, 2009
02:11 AM
How? Why didn't it work the first time you tried?
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‎Apr 28, 2009
04:47 PM
I was thinking it would force me for 10 GB at the start.But only when I clicked the Install Button,it checks for the 10 GB space.I din realise this first time..
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‎May 11, 2019
01:31 PM
Under which directory it looks for the required space ? can we specify the directory also ?
Is there a way to look for disk quota also ?
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‎May 13, 2019
09:11 AM
Hi Rakesh,
Thank you for your post.
Here is my response to your reply:
Under which directory it looks for the required space ? can we specify the directory also ?
[IAN]: The installer only checks the $USER_INSTALL_DIR$ directory. If you update $USER_INSTALL_DIR$ that would influence which directory the installer checks. The installer checks the given file system, partition, etc. for required and free disk space.
Is there a way to look for disk quota also?
[IAN] No, not currently. We are aware of this issue, but currently there is no support for this.
Thanks,
Ian
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