How to create more partitions in x86 Solaris?

UNIX Solaris
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Friends,
I have an 80 GB IDE hard disk on which I installed Solaris 10, the layout being

Total size of the partition being 30 GB
c0d0s0 = / directory = 15 GB
c0d0s1 = swap file system = 1 GB
c0d0s7 = /export/home directory = 1GB
c0d0s8= boot
c0d0s9 = alternates

Remaining slices are unassigned.

So, now 30 GB is allocated for Solaris 10 and now I wish to know is there any way I can allot the remaining 50 GB of HDD space for solaris itself.

I came to know that it is possible via fdisk utility to have up to 16 partitions in x86, but not in SPARC.

please post ur valuable replies....thank u.

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can you post your partition table?

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You can have only up to 4 fdisk primary partitions by design and Solaris 10 doesn't allows to create extended partitions (OpenSolaris recently removed that limitation). You can have up to 16 slices inside the Solaris partition but I suppose there is no more room to set one in your setup.

What I would suggest would be to create an additional primary partition with the remaining 50 GB and use it as a ZFS pool. You will have then the possibility to create a virtually unlimited number of file-systems in the pool.

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jilliagre and incredible..
really sorry for not replying to your posts. My monitor is not working now and it is under service. Thanks a lot for your replies. I will get back soon with more doubtss....:slight_smile: thank u ........