I asked > I am replacing an old homedir server. The old server had an A100 array full > of 1,2, and 4gig disks. (Yes, it is ancient). Each disk was its own > partition and was an individual's home directory. I am replacing this > with a shiny new V480 running Solaris 9 with a couple of S1 arrays attached, > and one of those disks is a 72gig disk that I want to put all of the home > directories in. Since everyone has gotten used to their homedir being its > own partition, I would like to preserve that on the new system. But that > will require me to have 30-odd partitions on a single disk. SDS uses the > underlying UFS filesystem, so I unfortunately cannot use it. I can put a > Veritas filesystem on there, but I am curious what other options folks > would suggest here. TIA, and I will summarize. The answer soft partitions in SDS. http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-4518/6mannldg5?q=soft+partitions&a=view Thanks to lots and lots of people who responded really really quickly... +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Christopher L. Barnard O When I was a boy I was told that | | cbarnard@tsg.cbot.com / \ anybody could become president. | | (312) 347-4901 O---O Now I'm beginning to believe it. | | http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~cbarnard --Clarence Darrow | +----------PGP public key available via finger or PGP keyserver---------+ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Jun 17 16:51:13 2004
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