Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

Solaris Volume Manager Roadmap—Storage Capacity

Task	Description	For Instructions
Set up storage	Create storage that spans slices by creating a RAID-0 or a RAID-5 volume. The RAID-0 or RAID-5 volume can then be used for a file system or any application, such as a database, that accesses the raw device.	How to Create a RAID-0 (Stripe) Volume How to Create a RAID-0 (Concatenation) Volume How to Create a RAID-1 Volume From Unused Slices How to Create a RAID-1 Volume From a File System How to Create a RAID-5 Volume
Expand an existing file system	Increase the capacity of an existing file system by creating a RAID-0 (concatenation) volume, then adding additional slices to that volume.	How to Expand Storage Capacity for Existing Data
Expand an existing RAID-0 (concatenation or stripe) volume	Expand an existing RAID-0 volume by concatenating additional slices to it.	How to Expand an Existing RAID-0 Volume
Expand a RAID-5 volume	Expand the capacity of a RAID-5 volume by concatenating additional slices to it.	How to Expand a RAID-5 Volume
Increase the size of a UFS file system on an expanded volume	Expand a file system by using the `growfs` command to expand the size of a UFS while it is mounted and without disrupting access to the data.	How to Expand a File System
Subdivide slices or logical volumes into smaller partitions, breaking the 8-slice hard partition limit	Subdivide logical volumes or slices by using soft partitions.	How to Create a Soft Partition
Create a file system	Create a file system on a RAID-0 (stripe or concatenation), RAID-1 (mirror), RAID-5, or on a soft partition.	Chapter 18, Creating UFS, TMPFS, and LOFS File Systems (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems