Disk Storage
Before you begin to install a system, you need to think about how you want data stored on your system’s disks. With one disk, the decision is easy. When multiple disks are installed, you must decide which disks to use for the operating system, the swap area, and the user data.
Solaris breaks disks into pieces called partitions, or slices. A Solaris disk can be divided into a maximum of seven partitions.
Why would you want to divide the disk into multiple partitions? Some administrators don’t; they use the entire disk with one partition. By using one partition, all of the space on the disk is available for anyone to use. When the system administrator creates a partition, the space in that partition is available only to the file ...
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