On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux
<gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
On 2011-02-10 20:10, Daryl F wrote:
> Slight correction below...
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Daryl F wrote:
...
>> 2 always represents the whole disk, for backups, so do use it although it
> ^^
> do not
>> might work in this case.
I would think that, since he plans to use the whole disk as one slice,
it would be entirely appropriate to use slice 2.
>> Everything but 2 is just by convention so it's really up to you if you are
>> going to put the whole disk in one slice.
And certainly, any slice number above 2 is fairly loosely defined, and
could be used for pretty much any purpose.
It's been a _long_ time since I did any manual formatting of disks under
Solaris, so take what I say with a grain of salt. (Particularly if
you'll be using ZFS, which might have its own conventions.)
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