Partitioning in Sun (Oracle) Solaris 10

How to Create Paritition and Mount in Solaris 10?


Partitions are called 'Slices' in Solaris

df

df -h

VTOC = volume Table of contents

<FDISK not required in SPARC, because of using SCSI>

***SLICES rules in x86 using VTOC***
~ Maximum 10 slices (0 to 9)
~ Slices 2,8,9 are reserved
~ slice 2 - VTOC (Disk's label and Slices OS) So can't change
~ slices 0,1,3,4,5,6,7 allowed to used (total 7)

/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0

's0' is reserved for root mount point
 run 'df' to check allocations

prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0

/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0

c0 : First controller
t0 : First Target (Only of SCSI Used)
d0 : First DISK
s0 : First Slice (1st partition)

ls -l /dev/dsk/c0t0d0*

format

0

FORMAT MENU:

q

cat /etc/vfstab

format

0

format> disk

format> ?

format> current

format> fdisk

CREATE PARTITION
DELETE PARTITION
..SO ON..

delete first if any...

no partitions

format> fdisk

y

Got first parition

5

format> partition

partition> print

4 Unassigned wm   0   -   0

partition> 4

Partition id tag[unassigned]
partition permission[wm]
new start cyl[0]
size [0b,0c] 5gb

partition> print

partition> quit

format> save


format> quit

To format slices:

newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s4

To automatically mount file systems during booting process:

gedit /etc/vfstab

/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s4  /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s4 /data1  ufs 2 yes  -

To verify:

mount -a

df