>> And finally, if anyone has experience doing this, and process >> recommendations? That is My next task is to go read documentation >> again, to refresh my memory from years ago, about the difference >> between format, partition, label, fdisk, because those terms >> dont have the same meaning that they do in other OSes And I dont >> know clearly right now, which one(s) I want to do, in order to create >> the large slice of my disks. > > The whole partition vs. slice thing is a bit fuzzy to me, so take this > with a grain of salt. You can create partitions using fdisk, or slices > using format. The BIOS and other operating systems (windows, linux, > etc) will be able to recognize partitions, while they won't be able to > make sense of slices. If you need to boot from the drive or share it > with another OS, then partitions are the way to go. If it's exclusive > to solaris, then you can use slices. You can (but shouldn't) use slices > and partitions from the same device (eg: c5t0d0s0 and c5t0d0p0).
Oh, I managed to find a really good answer to this question. Several sources all say to do precisely the same procedure, and when I did it on a test system, it worked perfectly. Simple and easy to repeat. So I think this is the gospel method to create the slices, if you're going to create slices: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-4073/6jd67r9hu and http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#Rep lacing.2FRelabeling_the_Root_Pool_Disk _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
