Hello, first of all, I am a total newbie with solaris, I am usually a windows-user. So some of the words I use is probably wrong, and my knowlengde is very limitid, However, here is my problem:
I have a triple boot with 4 partitions, Linux, Linux Swap, Windows, and Solaris, even though I have free space. If I try to create another partition with fdsik I get the message that I have to delete a partition first. It is my understanding that one can only have one solaris partition, so thats ok. However it should be possible to create som slices inside the existing partion. I want to create about 10 slices to experminet a bit with ZFS. Here is the info i get up: Partition Status Type Start End Length % 1 IFS: NTFS 0 2676 2677 18 2 Solaris 6501 6998 498 3 3 Linux Native 2677 6500 3824 26 4 Active Solaris2 6999 9915 2917 20 And the slices: Total disk cylinders available 496+2 Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size 0 root wm 265-1309 8.01GB 1 swap wu 3-264 2.01GB 2 backup wn 0-2914 22.33GB 3 unassigned wm 0 0 4 unassigned wm 1310-1440 1.00GB 5 unassigned wm 0 0 6 unassigned wm 0 0 7 home wm 2355-2914 4.29GB 8 boot wu 0-0 7.84MB 9 alternates wu 1-2 15.69MB Slice number 4 is ok, and i can resize it if its already an existing slice, but I cannot use the free cylinders to create a slice number 2, 5, or 6. THat is, if I try to create one I get the message "1441 is out of range" (if i try to start the slice on cylinder 1441.). It only works if I have the slice before cylinder 495. As you can see, it says "total cylinders avalable 496", howver the partition seems to in reality have 2915 cylinders. Is there a way I can fix this? Hopefully I was able to explain my problem in an understandable way. Thanks in advance for any help. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
