Let me start out by saying I've been using and administering some flavor of Unix for over 16 years, so the question I'm asking is about solaris specifically and not about what slices are etc.
I have been playing around with various flavors of open solaris and I have noticed that they create two slices during the install that seem to be used for some sort of system thing, but I can't find any information about them. The first i usually tagged boot and in the first cylinder on the disk. Being a computer guy for a lot of years, I'm guessing it has something to do with booting, however what exactly is it used for and where is it documented? The other is usually tagged alternates and uses 1 or 2 cylinders after the boot slice. Where do I find out what these are used for and what bad things would happen if I messed with them? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
