On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Kevin McGregor wrote:
I installed Solaris 10 x86 in a virtual machine (VMware Workstation). Now I want to add a second, 8 GB, hard drive to the VM. I added the "hardware", and now I'm at the point where I've got the disk formatted and partitioned, or almost. My question is about "slices". I'm using UFS, and I just want to create a filesystem for my own use. So which slice (0-9) should I use for that? I'm guessing probably not 0-2, but would any of the rest be preferable? I intend to use the whole disk for one filesystem.
Kevin
0 is often used in that case. It is normally the root slice so using in the case of a whole disk makes sense.
1 is usually swap so it is sorta dangerous to use. Someone might think it is swap and overwrite your data by accident.
2 always represents the whole disk, for backups, so do use it although it might work in this case.
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.
-Daryl