Solstice DiskSuite Soft Partitions

Published 28 Feb 2006 Read time 33 sec(s) (2409 views). Storage

Solaris Volume Manager provides the ability to create more partitions than the limit of 7 using traditional partitions. Such partitions are called soft partitions.

This post provides use of the commands by example:

Creating a soft partition The following commands will create a 4gb soft-partition device name /dev/md/dsk/d101 from partition c3t1d0s0:
```
# metainit <name> -p <dev> <size>
# metainit d101 -p c3t1d0s0 4g
```
Viewing details of all soft partitions
```
# metastat
```
Viewing the details of a single soft partition
```
# metastat d101
```
Deleting a single soft partition
```
# metaclear d101
```
Deleting all soft partitions on a traditional partition
```
# metaclear -p c3t1d0s0
```