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-----Original Message----- From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 7:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
