How to Create a Soft Partition
Check the Configuration Guidelines for Soft Partitions.
Use one of the following methods to create a soft partition:
From the Enhanced Storage tool within the Solaris Management Console, open the Volumes node. Choose Action⇒Create Volume. Then, follow the instructions in the wizard. For more information, see the online help.
To create a soft partition, use the following form of the metainit command:
# metainit [-s diskset] soft-partition -p [-e] component size
s
diskset
Specifies which disk set is being used. If -s is
not specified, the local (default) disk set is used.
p
Specifies that a soft partition be configured.
e
Specifies that the entire disk should be reformatted. Formatting the disk provides a slice 0, which takes most of the disk. Formatting the disk also provides a slice 7 of a minimum of 4 Mbytes in size. Slice 7 contains a state database replica.
soft-partition
Specifies the name of the soft partition. The name is of the
form d
nnn
,
where nnn is a number in a range between 0 and
8192.
component
Specifies the disk, slice, or logical volume from which to create the soft partition. All existing data on the component is destroyed because the soft partition headers are written at the beginning of the component.
size
Specifies the size of the soft partition. The size is specified as a number followed by one of the following:
M or m for megabytes
G or g for gigabytes
T or t for terabytes
B or b for blocks (sectors)
See the following examples and the metainit ( 1M ) man page for more information.