Sun Server Partition?

[BMW]

All,

While I was doing the Solaris 8 installation, it ask me where I would like to put the swap file. I am confused with the relationship between swap partition and root partition. Is there a doc which tells me the best practice? In my case, I have a Sun Enterprise 2 with 12 x 4GB hard drives connected to 3 separate controllers.

Thanks,
BMW

 

[bsek]

Try this,

http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/805-7228/6j6q7uet3?a=view

 

[lfoata]

the swap file is the equivalent of /tmp on solaris.
Ideally it should be on a separate disk, but not mandatory.
In /, you will find all the OS stuff
/tmp is a temporary work space for the OS (swap) and for the users.
Best practive is to have swap size twice the amount of RAM. Too bad I.T. is not cash business

Luc Foata
Unix sysadmin, Oracle DBA