Re: Moving Informix from SCO to Solaris, Need help

> > "S . Kipper" wrote: > > > > Just remember that Solaris cannot have more than 8 slices on one disk. So > > > it is useless to have disks larger than 16 Gig. This is without any RAID > > > configuration. > > > > You mean 7 slices. Slice 2 describes the whole disk (including VTOC > > information and such) and should therefore not be used :-) > If you are using the whole disk as raw then you can use all eight partitions (16 for Solaris x86). You never had to use slice 2 it was always just a convention and used by some Unix commands, dump and backup for two. However, the convention is still to leave slice 2 alone but there is no technical reason, just baffles sysadmins who aren't use to dealing with raw disks -- Paul Watson # WF Software # If it was easy Tel ++44 1436 674729 # Everybody could do it Fax ++44 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.com/informix #