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Greetings,

From what I've heard..if you have one single disk you can not have more
than 7 slices.....actually six and the backup in solaris.  Is this true??
Is this a limitation of Solaris or of UFS??  If I have Veritas Volume
manager (not file system) installed still using UFS will I still have that
limitation??  How about using Veritas FIle system??  If the first
answer is it's a UFS limitation I can pretty much answer the rest.

Thanks in advance
JRS

Quote:>Greetings,

>From what I've heard..if you have one single disk you can not have more
>than 7 slices.....actually six and the backup in solaris.  Is this true??
>Is this a limitation of Solaris or of UFS??

It's a limitation of the Solaris sparc disk label (actually it's
8 slices, including backup if you want it). I presume it was done
for backwards compatability with SunOS and the boot prom.

SVR4's limit is 16 slices, and Solaris x86 supports the full 16
slices (except the 'format' command doesn't).

UFS lives inside a slice - it doesn't know or care how many other
slices there are.

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Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer