[RndTbl] Solaris 10 newbie question

[Daryl F]

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