[RndTbl] Solaris 10 newbie question

Daryl F wyatt at prairieturtle.ca
Thu Feb 10 20:10:06 CST 2011


Slight correction below...

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, Daryl F wrote:

> 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
                                                       ^^
                                                     do not
> 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
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-Daryl


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