10-19-2010
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suneelieg
My 1st doubt is as you know solaris have default 8 slices out of 8 slices in which slice the OS is stored. Like in windows if you select C drive the Program files are stored in C drive like that in solaris in which slice the OS is stored.
C: isn't really a drive but a file system located on a partition that can be any of the four primary ones. Similarily, / can be on any of the 8 slices except slice 2 by convention.
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My 2nd doubt is at the time of installation why we create /swap, /usr, /var directories in different slices and why we allocate space to these directories. It is must to create these directories i know swap is used for memory purpose. If we are not create these directories OS is installed or not.
The OS can be installed on a single filesystem (/). Anything else like dedicated swap, usr and var are optional although a swap partition is recommended.
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cmdk(7D) Devices cmdk(7D)
NAME
cmdk - common disk driver
SYNOPSIS
cmdk@target, lun : [ partition | slice ]
DESCRIPTION
The cmdk device driver is a common interface to various disk devices. The driver supports magnetic fixed disks and magnetic removable
disks.
The block-files access the disk using the system's normal buffering mechanism and are read and written without regard to physical disk
records. There is also a "raw" interface that provides for direct transmission between the disk and the user's read or write buffer. A sin-
gle read or write call usually results in one I/O operation; raw I/O is therefore considerably more efficient when many bytes are transmit-
ted. The names of the block files are found in /dev/dsk; the names of the raw files are found in /dev/rdsk.
I/O requests to the magnetic disk must have an offset and transfer length that is a multiple of 512 bytes or the driver returns an EINVAL
error.
Slice 0 is normally used for the root file system on a disk, slice 1 as a paging area (for example, swap), and slice 2 for backing up the
entire fdisk partition for Solaris software. Other slices may be used for usr file systems or system reserved area.
Fdisk partition 0 is to access the entire disk and is generally used by the fdisk(1M) program.
FILES
/dev/dsk/cndn[s|p]n block device (IDE)
/dev/rdsk/cndn[s|p]n raw device (IDE)
where:
cn controller n
dn lun n (0-7)
sn UNIX system slice n (0-15)
pn fdisk partition(0)
/kernel/drv/cmdk 32-bit kernel module.
/kernel/drv/amd64/cmdk 64-bit kernel module.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |x86 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
fdisk(1M), mount(1M), lseek(2), read(2), write(2), readdir(3C), scsi(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), dkio(7I)
SunOS 5.10 9 Oct 2004 cmdk(7D)