Adakalahnya we need more than 8 slice on solaris for the purposes of the application that will be running on SUN and Solaris machines, and therefore we can make use of soft partition for that purpose.
This is how I feel when going to install Solaris on Sun Fire V240 machine that later on it will run SAP, what is SAP?
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there are 4 disks that are in use are: c1t0d0, c1t1d0, c1t2d0 & c1t3d0
the steps that I did was:
1. mirroring os, whose use is disk c1t0d0 & c1t1d0
2. create a soft partition, disk is c1t2d0 & c1t3d0
The following brief steps that I use:
Mirroring disk0 and disk1 BWDEV
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# Format for creating slice
# Fmthard-s / tmp/c1t0d0s2.vtoc / dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2
# Metadb-a-f-c 3 c1t0d0s7 c1t1d0s7
for /
# Metainit-f 1 1 c1t0d0s0 D10
# Metainit-f 1 1 c1t1d0s0 D20
# Metainit d0-m D10
# Metaroot d0
for swap
# Metainit-f 1 1 c1t0d0s1 D11
# Metainit-f 1 1 c1t1d0s1 D21
# Metainit d1-m D11
for / usr
# Metainit-f 1 1 c1t0d0s3 D13
# Metainit-f 1 1 c1t1d0s3 D23
# Metainit d3-m D13
for / var
# D14 metaini-f 1 1 c1t0d0s4
# D24 metaini-f 1 1 c1t1d0s4
# Metaini d4-m D14
for / sources
# Metaini-f d15 1 1 c1t0d0s5
# D25 metaini-f 1 1 c1t1d0s5
# Metaini d5-m d15
for unassigned
# D16 metaini-f 1 1 c1t0d0s6
# D26 metaini-f 1 1 c1t1d0s6
# Metaini d6-m D16
- According to edit vfstab mirror
- Reboot the system
# Lockfs-fa
# Sync; sync; sync; init 6
- Attach the metadevice
# Metattach d0 D20
# Metattach d1 D21
# Metattach d3 D23
# Metattach d4 D24
# Metattach d5 D25
# Metattach d6 D26
coredump setting device:
# Dumpadm-d / dev/md/dsk/d1
creating soft partitions mirrored bwdev
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# Format for creating slice
# Fmthard-s / tmp/c1t2d0s2.vtoc / dev/rdsk/c1t3d0s2
# Metadb-a-f-c 3 c1t2d0s7 c1t3d0s7
# Metainit-f 1 1 c1t2d0s0 D70
# Metainit-f 1 1 c1t3d0s0 D80
# Metainit d90-m D70
# Metattach D90 D80
creating a soft partition:
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Disk Size: 146GB
Total soft part size: 129Gb
Total soft part: soft part 18
/ Sapmnt / BWDEV: 5 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D31 5g
/ Usr / sap / BWDEV: 5 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D32 5g
/ Usr / sap / trans: 5 GB (external Disk) (sharing to nfs)
# Metainit d90-p D33 5g
/ Oracle: 1 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D34 1g
/ Oracle / client: 1 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D35 1g
/ Oracle/stage/102_64: 8 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D36 8g
/ Oracle / BWDEV: 4GB (external disk)
# Metainit d37-p d90 4g
/ Oracle/BWDEV/102_64: 8 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D38 8g
/ Oracle / BWDEV / oraarch: 5 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D39 5g
/ Oracle / BWDEV / sapreorg: 2 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D40 2g
/ Oracle/BWDEV/sapdata1: 20 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D41 20g
/ Oracle/BWDEV/sapdata2: 20 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D42 20g
/ Oracle/BWDEV/sapdata3: 20 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D43 20g
/ Oracle/BWDEV/sapdata4: 20 GB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D44 20g
/ Oracle / BWDEV / mirrlogA: 500 MB (external disk)
# Metainit d45-p d90 500m
/ Oracle / BWDEV / origlogB: 500 MB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D46 500m
/ Oracle / BWDEV / mirrlogB: 500 MB (external disk)
# Metainit d47-p d90 500m
/ Oracle / BWDEV / origlogA: 500 MB (external disk)
# Metainit d90-p D48 500m
Creating newfs.
# Newfs / dev/md/dsk/d31
# Newfs / dev/md/dsk/d32
# Newfs / dev/md/dsk/d33
….
# Newfs / dev/md/dsk/d48
Edit vfstab According to it’s mount point.