Carving up a slice on existing production disk

Daryl.Mitchell_at_us.o-i.com
Date: 07/21/05

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    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:17:49 -0400
    
    

    Don't laugh now, I've never done this before. I have a big 72GB drive in
    my Sun 280R. Can I format->partition slice 7 without affecting the
    currently in use partition slices? I need about 30GB on slice 7. So I'll
    just start at cylinder 4951-<whatever>. Will that mess up any of the other
    slices or destroy data? Thanks in advance.

    Daryl

    partition> pr
    Current partition table (original):
    Total disk cylinders available: 14087 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

    Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
      0 root wm 0 - 2473 12.00GB (2474/0/0) 25175424
      1 swap wu 2474 - 3298 4.00GB (825/0/0) 8395200
      2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
      3 var wm 3299 - 4123 4.00GB (825/0/0) 8395200
      4 unassigned wm 4124 - 4948 4.00GB (825/0/0) 8395200
      5 unassigned wm 4949 - 4949 4.97MB (1/0/0) 10176
      6 unassigned wm 4950 - 4950 4.97MB (1/0/0) 10176
      7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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