I'm looking for input and an example for what I'm about to accomplish with Soft partitions on our Solaris 10 Sparc system.
We have 2 luns one is 153GB and the other is 156gb, and I've setup the disks to have everything on slice 0. These Luns are setup in an EMC Hardware Raid 5. Lun1 will contain the soft partition d100 /homea, d200 /homec, d300 /homes, d400 /homes, and lun2 soft partition will contain d500 /homef, d600 /homei, d700 /homem, d800 /homep. The soft partitions average between 27 to 42gb per partition. Now I've specified all the space contain in slice 0 for each disk, and the maximum size of a soft partition is limited to the size of the slice. What if I want to expand later, I can't expand more space on this slice unless I set it up in a volume first correct? Here's what the manual says: Because of this limitation, you should build a volume on top of your disk slices, then build soft partitions on top of the volume. This strategy allows you to add components to the volume later, and then expand the soft partitions as needed. Could someone give me an example commands on creating a Volume on top of a soft partition so that I can expand the soft partitions later in the future, because we do have a lot more disk space on our EMC array. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
