[ug-bosug] What is the /second_root slice? How do i get rid of it?

[Pradhap Devarajan]

I would rather comment out /etc/vfstab and create zpool out of the free 
partition and use it for storing data.

~ Pradhap.D

Saurabh Vyas wrote:
> Hi Manish,
>
> The second root slice what you see is present for the *live upgrade*.
> As in new Solaris installer (caiman) you cannot specify the slices, it 
> creates 15Gb of root slice & a second root slice (the rest space is left 
> for /export/home)
> To reclaim it you need to blow up your /second_root slice and then you 
> can do growfs on /export/home.
>
> HTH,
> ~Saurabh
>
> Manish Chakravarty wrote:
>   
>> Hi BOSUG,
>>
>> I did a df -h of my system and found this:
>> Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
>> /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s0       15G   7.0G   7.6G    48%    /
>> /devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
>> /dev                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev
>> ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
>> proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
>> mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
>> swap                   2.8G  1004K   2.8G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
>> objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
>> sharefs                  0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
>> /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
>>                         15G   7.0G   7.6G    48%    /lib/libc.so.1
>> fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
>> swap                   2.8G    80K   2.8G     1%    /tmp
>> swap                   2.8G    44K   2.8G     1%    /var/run
>> /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s4       15G    15M    15G     1%    /second_root
>> /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s7       18G   1.5G    16G     9%    /export/home
>> /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s2      3.7G   3.7G     0K   100%    /media/SOL_11_X86s\
>>
>> I did not create a /second_root slice. Why is it there and what is it
>> for?
>>
>> I dont want to waste 15 gigs of space on this slice. I want it for
>> my /export/home. Is there any way to "reclaim" it?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Manish
>>
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