To Create a Boot Environment and Reconfigure Swap (Command-Line Interface)

Swap slices are shared between boot environments by default. By NOT specifying swap with the -m option, your current and inactive boot environment share the same swap slices. If you want to reconfigure the new boot environment's swap, use the -m option to add or remove swap slices in the new boot environment.

The swap slice cannot be in use by any boot environment except the current boot environment or if the -s option is used, the source boot environment. The boot environment creation fails if the swap slice is being used by any other boot environment whether it is a swap, ufs, or any other file system.

You can create a boot environment with the existing swap slices and then edit the vfstab file after the creation.

1. Log in as superuser.

2. Type:

   # lucreate -m mountpoint:device:fs_type \ -m -:device:swap -n BE_name

   -m mountpoint:device:fs_type

   Specifies the vfstab information for the new boot environment. The file systems that are specified as arguments to -m can be on the same disk or they can be spread across multiple disks. mountpoint can be any valid mount point or – (hyphen), indicating a swap slice. device field can be one of the following: The name of a disk device, of the form /dev/dsk/cnumtnumdnumsnum The keyword merged, indicating that the file system at the specified mount point is to be merged with its parent fs_type field can be one of the following: vxfs, which indicates a Veritas file system swap, which indicates a swap file system ufs, which indicates a UFS file system

   -n BE_name

   The name of the boot environment to be created. BE_name must be unique.

   The new boot environment is created with swap moved to a different slice or device.

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   Example 3–4 Creating a Boot Environment and Reconfigure Swap (Command-Line Interface)

   
   

   In this example, the new boot environment uses both /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 and /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s1 as swap slices:

   # lucreate -m /:/dev/dsk/c0t4d0s0:ufs -m -:/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1:swap \ -m -:/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1:swap -n second_disk

   These swap assignments are effective only after booting from second_disk. If you have a long list of swap slices, use the -M option. See To Create a Boot Environment and Reconfigure Swap Using a List (Command-Line Interface).

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