Overview of Disk Management

The management of disks in the Solaris environment usually involves setting up the system and running the Solaris installation program to create the appropriate disk slices and file systems and to install the operating system. Occasionally, you might need to use the format utility to add a new disk drive or replace a defective one.

The Solaris operating environment runs on two types of hardware, or platforms—SPARC and IA. The Solaris operating environment runs on both 64–bit and 32–bit address spaces. The information in this document pertains to both platforms and address spaces unless called out in a special chapter, section, note, bullet, figure, table, example, or code example.