partitioning Profile Keyword

partitioning type

partitioning defines how the disks are divided into slices for file systems during the installation.

type - Choose one of the following options:

• default - JumpStart selects the disks and creates the file systems on which to install the specified software, except for any file systems specified by the filesys keywords. rootdisk is selected first; additional disks are used if the specified software does not fit on rootdisk.

• existing - JumpStart uses the existing file systems on the system's disks. All file systems except /, /usr, /usr/openwin, /opt, and /var are preserved. JumpStart uses the last mount point field from the file system superblock to determine which file system mount point the slice represents.

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  Note –

  When using both the filesys and partitioning existing profile keywords, you must set size size to existing.

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• explicit - JumpStart uses the disks and creates the file systems specified by the filesys keywords. If you specify only the root (/) file system with the filesys keyword, all the Solaris software is installed in the root (/) file system.

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  Note –

  If you use the explicit profile value, you must use the filesys keyword to specify the disks to use and file systems to create.

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If you do not specify partitioning in the profile, the default type of partitioning is used by default.