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Ive installed Solaris using Suns brain dead disk slice defaults. How do I modify my slices?

April 26, 2017brain dead defaults disk installed slice slices Solaris Sun

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Ive installed Solaris using Suns brain dead disk slice defaults. How do I modify my slices?

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You don’t. It’s too late now, but you should have read the recommendations on disk partitions and sizes in section 4 of this FAQ. Solaris (unless you’re running under Veritas) doesn’t support modifying slices without destroying data on the entire slice. Your options are (in order of ease): • Reinstall and choose your own custom layout. • Create softlinks or local mounts to filesystems with more free space and move the files. E.g. for /opt: “mv opt/export/home” and “mount localhost:/export/home/opt /opt” or “ln -s /export/home/opt /opt • Backup, boot install media, and run format, newfs, & restore [Thanks to John D.

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You don’t. It’s too late now, but you should have read the recommendations on disk partitions and sizes in section 4 of this FAQ. Solaris (unless you’re running under Veritas) doesn’t support modifying slices without destroying data on the entire slice.