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solaris intel will have 10 partition starting from slice s0 to s9
we can do nothing with s8 and s9 as u said , olny we can use 7 partition as slice 2 refers to
whole disk
for example in my disk
cylinders
s0 - root -- 3 -510
s1 - swap 511 -917
s2 - refers to whole disk 0 - 9971
s3 - usr 918 - 3762
s4 - var 3763 - 4270
s5 unassigned -- probably i can use this space later
s6 unassigned - do -
s7 unassigned -do-
do format command , select ur disk and type partition and print
c ur slice 2 (identify cylinder range for eg: 0 - 9971) if any of the other slices have
end with 9971 cylinder range , for an example if u have used s6 or s7 for /export/home or opt
and ends with range 9971.
probably u can not create new slice as have already used that range , as only we can allocate space for unused cylinder range .
if u have available range , create partition using format and label it
and then construct file system using newfs and mount it under ur own directory
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solaris intel will have 10 partition starting from slice s0 to s9
This is not what I read on the fmthard manual page:
Code:
partition
The partition number. Currently, for Solaris
SPARC, a disk can have up to 8 partitions, 0-7.
Even though the partition field has 4 bits, only
3 bits are currently used. For x86, all 4 bits
are used to allow slices 0-15. Each Solaris
fdisk partition can have up to 16 slices
Quote:
do format command , select ur disk and type partition and print
format has indeed this 10 partitions (slices) limit, fmthard doesn't seem to have it.
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