Best Practices:
- / root filesystem also includes //usr/ because your machine will not boot without both
- root filesystem is the required size for Solaris + 50% (guess: 3G)
- Only Solaris is installed on the root filesystem
- swap is 2x the size of RAM in the machine at a minimum, but make it larger because
- running out of memory is catastrophic, and
- applications might possibly need a lot of memory, OR
- they may make use of substantial amounts of //tmp/ which shares space with swap
- //var/ is 4G or larger if necessary for the applicaton
- //local/ is the rest of the disk
- //usr/local/ is lofs mounted or symlinked to //local/
- //export/home/, is symlinked to //local/home/
Example
Total disk cylinders available: 24620 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 2177 3.00GB (2178/0/0) 6292242
1 swap wu 2178 - 4355 3.00GB (2178/0/0) 6292242
2 backup wu 0 - 24619 33.92GB (24620/0/0) 71127180
3 var wu 4356 - 7259 4.00GB (2904/0/0) 8389656
4 home wm 7260 - 24619 23.91GB (17360/0/0) 50153040
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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