Managing Disks (Overview)

This chapter provides overview information about Solaris disk slices and introduces the format utility.

This is a list of overview information in this chapter.

• What's New in Disk Management?

• Where to Find Disk Management Tasks

• Overview of Disk Management

• Disk Terminology

• About Disk Labels

• About Disk Slices

• format Utility

• Partitioning a Disk

For instructions on how to add a disk to your system, see Chapter 12, SPARC: Adding a Disk (Tasks) or Chapter 13, x86: Adding a Disk (Tasks).