Timothy Crawford wrote: > During a casual discussion about installing Solaris, it was suggested that for > a single user system for personal use, that you could just use a single > partition / > Then you never have to worry about allocating too little or too much disk > space. > Any thoughts? My concern was the swap partition. > > Leaving the swap argument aside, my biggest objection to this is the lack of support for Live Upgrade. If you are going to use LU, (and why wouldn't you?) you have to have a spare root slice. Dividing the drive into two equal slices is a bit daft, so you end up with a minimum of four slices, swap, root, spare root and /export/home.
Ian
