Creating Solaris Slices

The Media Slice Editor is used to create Solaris slices on a device. You can only create slices in a UFS file system. If you select a PCFS or UDFS file system, you will not have the option of creating Solaris slices.

Once slices are created, the Media Slice Editor can be used to write UFS or UDFS file systems onto the slices. Where possible, the Media Slice Editor will check the slice values supplied by the user as well as the overall integrity of the slice information. For example, it will report errors for overlapping slices.

There are two methods of creating slices.