On January 14, 2010 9:41:13 AM -0800 Mike <mike.geisler at gmail.com> wrote: > I just installed OpenSolaris on a IBM desktop with an 80Gb hard drive. I > assigned the root partition 30gb to install off of the live cd. When I > run a format command after successful installation I am unable to see or > partition the remaining 50Gb. Typically I would expect format to reveal a > partition table that would show partition 2 to be the whole disk instead > of only the cylinders that the rpool is using. > > Any suggestions for reclaiming the rest of my disk for playing with zones > and zfs?
You're confusing slices and partitions. With a sun label on x86, *slice* 2 is by convention the entire *partition* (on sparc it's the entire disk since sparc doesn't grok partitions). Use fdisk to format the other partition as a Solaris partition and have it accessible. Then when you run format you can choose the other partition and see the slices within it, separately from the slices in your first partition. But really you may have set your system up with 80's style partitioning. I can't say for sure but probably what you really want it is to set up the entire disk as a single Solaris partition. Even if you want to reboot into the play environment, you can have multiple boot environments and either one can have access to as much of the disk as it needs (or as much as you allow via quota). -frank
