Soft-partitioning with DiskSuite

                                  

Soft Partitioning with Disksuite (Solaris Volume Manager):
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to create mirrored, soft-partitions:

using these disks:
c0t2d0 (36g)
c0t3d0 (36g)

(this example assumes that these two disks are non-root, and that disksuite is already
installed and the required number of metadatabases already exist on the root disk(s).)


# create 20gb soft-partition on c0t2d0s0 called d79
metainit d79 -p c0t2d0s0 20gb

# encapsulate d79 and call that device d89
metainit d89 1 1 d79

# create a mirror adding d89 and call it d99
metainit d99 -m d89

# create 20gb soft-partition on c0t3d0s0 called d59
metainit d59 -p c0t3d0s0 20gb

# encapsulate d59 and call that device d69
metainit d69 1 1 d59

# attach d69 to the mirror d99
metattach d99 d69

which leaves you with this:

        99             - mirrored volume
      89  69           - encapsulated partitions
    79      59         - soft-partitions


# create a filesystem
newfs /dev/md/rdsk/d99

# mount d99 as you would any other disksuite volume:
mount /dev/md/dsk/d99 /mountpoint


continue to add partitions to that slice as needed, and space permits:

metainit d78 -p c0t2d0s0 10gb
metainit d88 1 1 d78
metainit d98 -m d88
metainit d58 -p c0t3d0s0 10gb
metainit d68 1 1 d58
metattach d98 d68

        98             - mirrored volume
      88  68           - encapsulated partitions
    78      58         - soft-partitions

newfs /dev/md/rdsk/d98
mount /dev/md/dsk/d98 /mountpoint

..and so on.

                                                            
2005 Kyle Reynolds