[ug-bosug] Split /space to swap in solaris partition..

[Pavan Chandrashekar - Sun Microsystems]

G N S wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/12/06, *Anil verve* <anil.verve at gmail.com 
> <mailto:anil.verve at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi list,
> 
>     I forgot to add a swap partition to the solaris partition.
>     So now i have the following slices
>      
>     /    -  5gb
>     /export/home - 2.5 gb
>     /space  - 11 gb.
> 
>     The /space is currently empty.. How can I split it to 2 partitions
>     (1gb swap + 10 space) without touching the other 2 and screwing up
>     the install. 
> 
> 
> Try format itself. It is quite simple to use.
> 
> If you do not find it comfortable, an easy solution is to create a empty 
> file and add it to be used as swap.

Yep, but the only concern is latency. As mentioned, format isn't all 
that scary to use. Do the following :

1. Unmount /space
2. run format
3. Select the disk
4. choose partition [ type p <enter> ]
5. print the partition table [ type p <enter> ]
6. type the number of the /space slice [ It is the same 's' number when 
you do a df -hl ]
7. Delete the slice by entering 0's for the starting, ending and the 
size of the slice.
8. Recreate the swap as necessary.
9. Recreate space.
10. name the label.
11. label the disk.
12. save
13. exit.
14. Freak out [ optional ].

~p

> /usr/sbin/mkfile 1024m /space/mynewswap 
> /usr/sbin/swap -a /space/mynewswap      
> 
> Now verify the available swap using
> /usr/sbin/swap -l
> 
> This way you can increase/decrease swap size as you please.
> 
> This will not be persistent across reboots. For that you may make the 
> above 2 commands part of a bootup script.
> 
> ~Shiv
> 
> 
>     regards
>     Anil
> 
>     PS : I figuerd i'd have to go and play with 'format -e' > partition,
>     but wondering if theres a friendlier solution.
> 
>     partition> print
>     Current partition table (original):
>     Total disk cylinders available: 2359 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
> 
>     Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders        Size            Blocks
>       0       root    wm       3 -  655        5.00GB    (653/0/0)  10490445
>       1 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
>       2     backup    wm       0 - 2358       18.07GB    (2359/0/0) 37897335
>       3 unassigned    wm       0               0        
>     (0/0/0)           0
>       4 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
>       5 unassigned    wm     656 - 2096       11.04GB    (1441/0/0) 23149665
>       6       home    wm    2097 - 2358        2.01GB    (262/0/0)   4209030
>       7 unassigned    wm       0               0        
>     (0/0/0)           0
>       8       boot    wu       0 -    0        7.84MB    (1/0/0)       16065
>       9 alternates    wu       1 -    2       15.69MB    (2/0/0)       32130
> 
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