Most customers use Veritas, but not for the root volume.  Some use Solaris
Disk Suite.

I think you will find someone on the list here that could help you, but you
will need to provide the release of Solaris you are using.  Are you using
UFS or VxFS or what?

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:justin.bleistein AT SUNGARD DOT COM]
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 8:28 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: basic solaris questions


I'm sorrrrrrrrry guys!!!. I know this is an AIX forum and I'm an AIX guru
myself but I have a few really basic and perhaps inept Solaris questions for
any Solaris admins out there:

1.) I'm reading this Solaris beginners admin guide, here are I'm reading
about partitioning a new disk with this format utility. Do you need to
configure a root partition tag even on additional disk? I can see on the
primary disk that tag(root) is configured as the actual "/" filesystem. They
also have an example on an additional external disk where they have root on
it as well. This confused me. Now I know in AIX you can have the root
logical volume/partition span multiple hdisks/disks. That's why I saw root
on multiple disks at first but it turned out that these two disks had
nothing to do with one another neither do the partitions. Any input onto why
all disks on this system has a "root" partition tag would be appreciated.

Also question b on the same subject would be, does the partition tag have
anything to do with the actual filesystem name? Or can I have an oracle
filesystem/mount point called: "/oradata" on a "/usr" partition tag?.

question c is when you repartiton disks like add space or change the
starting and ending point of a partition on these systems. Do you need to
reboot the system after you save and label the table or is it automatic.
Also it says any partition modification will wreck the filesystem/data which
resides on it. It says you should back it up first. Does any partition
modification include expanding it?. I know in AIX you can expand on the fly
via: "chfs" without a reboot.

question d How do you handle modifying system partitions such as the
partitions which: "/", "/tmp", "/opt", and "/var" reside on?. I'm assuming
they can't be modified except for either a new installation of the O/S, or
through a single user mode boot and a "/newroot" mounting method?.

Please advise. I hope it's not too confusing. Again I'm a beginner so go
easy on me. I live and die by AIX but coming over to the DARK SIDE a bit.
thanks!.

--Justin