Du (Jim) schreibst:
> Hello ...
>
> I'm new to Solaris and just installed 5.10 onto a X86 AMD 64bit box. My
> questions (2 of them), are:
>
> 1. During the install, you're offered the choices of installing onto one of
> four partitions, of which one has to be SOLARIS or the whole disk ... you're
> not given the opportunity to build your own partitions (/, home, boot, opt,
> var, tmp ...) ... I realize it lays down a ZFS file system that contains all
> of those for you, but how do I give it more room? It only installed onto 4 GB
> of a 360 GB HDD. So how do I expand/enlarge/resize my root and etc?
That's a common misunderstanding. In the world of x86 disks, there are FDISK
partitions. There can only be four of those of type PRIMARY. That's what the
installer does offer you at that point. After that: Solaris uses only ONE such
FDISK partition and puts it's SLICES inside one such FDISK partition. So, once
you have choosen and sized a FDISK partition, that's then used for all of the
pieces. So, in order to use all, either use the WHOLE DISK (if you do NOT want
to do a dual-boot system), or size that partition BEFORE you install to a size
that can accomodate all of the sapce, that you're going to need and use. You
simply can not enlarge FDISK partitions, without need of re-install
> 2. I have two disks in the box. How do I see and install the second?
Install? What do you want to install on the second disk? Why do you NOT see
it? How do you want to install it (UFS or ZFS)? What type of data do you want
to put there?
If you used ZFS in the beginning (which is a very good choice!), you should
then consult the man page to the "zpool" command.
If you run "format", you will at least see the disk, and get the name of the
device, taht you might then use in "zpool create ..."
Matthias
> Thanks
>
> JDL
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