> When I print a partition, does the backup space have any special > significance?.
In general, no. It's the default that slice 2 encompass all the blocks on the disk. But it's only a default. > I want to know if the "backup" space is available to me since I do not > see backup as a filesystem if I do a df All the blocks on the disks are available to you in some sense. But you cannot usefully assign a block to more than one slice and put data on both slices. > 0 root wm 0 - 4161 2.00GB (4162/0/0) 4195296 > 1 var wm 4162 - 5584 700.38MB (1423/0/0) 1434384 > 2 backup wm 0 - 39532 19.00GB (39533/0/0) 39849264 > 3 swap wu 5585 - 6625 512.37MB (1041/0/0) 1049328 > 4 usr wm 6626 - 14948 4.00GB (8323/0/0) 8389584 > 5 unassigned wm 14949 - 21190 3.00GB (6242/0/0) 6291936 > 6 home wm 21191 - 39531 8.82GB (18341/0/0) 18487728 > 7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 You can't write to slice 2 without overwriting data on other slices, since they overlap. Best is to leave slice 2 alone and make sure none of the other slices overlap without good reason. A quick glance suggests to me that all your cylinders are assigned to a slice other than slice 2 except for the last cylinder on disk: 39532. That's about half a megabyte that you could put in its own slice or add to the ned of home(slice6). Probably not big enough to worry about. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
