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Old 06-22-2005
Making dirs in a partition
I am setting up a design tools server on a machine running Solaris9.

I want to setup a partition that contains a number of design tools.
If I go to / and type mkdir "tools" then I am on the root partition.

How do I get "/tools" to be on a separate partition?

(I also have the same problem in that I want to create /export on the server for home dirs etc but again do not want this on the root partition.)

Any ideas or am I doing something foolish?

Thanks,

Stephen.
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Old 06-22-2005
create /tools directory under / and then mount a filesystem on it ... see "man newfs", "man mkfs", "man format", "man mount" and "man vfstab" ... same process throughout ...

quickly ...

1. create disk slice --- use format
2. create filesystem --- use newfs
3. mkdir /dir
4. mount filesystem on /dir --- use mount
5. edit /etc/vfstab to make mounts permanent
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Old 06-22-2005
Of course, this makes perfect sense now.

Easy when you know how.

Thanks muchly (again) JustIce.
 
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