11 Feb
2011
11 Feb
'11
5:34 p.m.
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 notmight 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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