Chapter 12: Disk Configuration and Naming

In this chapter, you will

• Gain an understanding of Solaris physical device names

• Gain an understanding of Solaris logical device names

• Learn how to use the format and dmesg commands to review system hardware

• Learn to display the system configuration with the prtconf command

Configuring and naming disks is a key administrative task. Solaris provides a number of complementary schemes for naming disks, file systems, slices, and partitions, which we examine in this chapter.