[immigrants-discuss] question

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Justin Zygmont wrote:

> 2. When setting up slices, what is overlap?  LVM?  does it matter where it is
> located?

The overlap slice is a slice which represents the whole disk. Not sure 
what platforms you're experienced with, but in Linux it's somewhat like 
operating on /dev/sda (whole first scsi device) versus operating on 
/dev/sda1 (first partition on first scsi device)

Generally just let format or whatever create it as slice 2 automatically

It doesn't really have anything to do with LVM. Solaris does have volume 
managers - there's SVM and the new ZFS stuff included, or Veritas as a 
commercial add-on

later,
chris