Solaris Volume Manager ( SVM ) or Disk Suite installation & Configuration

SVM Packages needs to be downloaded and installed manually in Solaris 8. SVM packages come inbuilt with Solaris 10 . The following tech notes has been noted to work fine in Solaris 8, 9 and 10.

Note: Version installed here : DiskSuite_4.2.1

1) Install the packages ( for Sol 8 )

pkgadd -d Packages_Name

2)
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create 100mb file system on Slice 7 on root disk
prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 >prtvtoc.txt => Disk Geometry copy of the main root disk
fmthard -s prtvtoc.txt /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 => Copying the geometry to the mirror disk
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Mirroring root swap var :

rootdisk c0t0d0
mirror c0t1d0

Slice information: s1 is standard for swap and s3 for var.

/ c0t0d0s0
swap c0t0d0s1
var c0t0d0s3

For root:
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create 100mb file system on Slice 7 on root disk

#metadb -a -f -c3 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7
#metainit -f d11 1 1 c0t0d0s0
#metainit d12 1 1 c0t1d0s0
#metainit d1 -m d11
metaroot d1
lockfs -fa
reboot.

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for swap
metainit -f d21 1 1 c0t0d0s1
metainit d22 1 1 c0t1d0s1
metainit d2 -m d21
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for var
metainit -f d31 1 1 c0t0d0s3
metainit d32 1 1 c0t1d0s3
metainit d3 -m d31

Make Entry in /etc/vfstab:-
edit vfstab:-
/dev/md/dsk/d2 - - swap - no -
/dev/md/dsk/d1 /dev/md/rdsk/d1 / ufs 1 no -
/dev/md/dsk/d3 /dev/md/rdsk/d3 /var ufs 1 no -

Reboot
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#metattach d1 d12
#metattach d2 d22
#metattach d3 d32
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