Solaris makes a distinction between fdisk partitions (the one's you only have 4 of on x86), and solaris partitions (or 'slices').
Generally you give Solaris a chunk of disk (a primary fdisk partition) for itself. It then further chops that up to make / , swap , /home etc - these are slices. Confusing I know. You can get to the primary partitions via c0d0pN from within solaris (as you say), but generally Solaris calls its chunk of disk c0d0, and then the slices become c0d0s0 , c0d0s3, c0d0sN etc. As I understand it, LU wants a free slice, not a free partition. On 11/9/07, Francesco Caimmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to Solaris and I am trying to learn how to use it. One of the things > I would really like to do is using live-upgrade. > > I decided to try this feature with a x86 box which has currently installed > solaris10,and I would like to lu it to SXCEb76. > > The box has one hard drive with the following layout: > 30% of disk space: Windows Xp C: partition > 25%: Windows Xp E: partition > 20%: Solaris Partition (c0d0p3 I belive, If I correctly understand Solaris > namig conventions) > The rest of the disk space is unallocated. > > So I think: let's create a solaris partition with the unallocated space, > mount it somewhere and use it to lu the solaris installation. I went to the > doc.sun.com downloaded the "System Administration Guide: Devices and File > Systems"(http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/817-5093/817-5093.pdf) and started to try to > figure out how to create a partition.I read the manual and issued a > > #format /dev/rdsk/c0d0 > > command > I have followed the "how to" up to the fdsik part, which was succesfull. > according to the tutorial the next step should be the creation of disk slices > for the partition but when I try to > > #format /dev/rdsk/c0d0 > format> partition > partition> modify > > the system says that the current disk has mounted slices and that it cannot > proceed, which I find sensible but somewhat disappointing. :P > > So the questions are: what's wrong with the above outlined way of reasoning? > And ,if nothing is wrong, what should I do to allocate that space in order to > use it? > > Thank you in advance for your suggestions! > > Valerion > > P.S. thanks also for the wireless drivers! :) > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > [email protected] > -- Rasputnik :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
