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Conversion of soft partitions

The provided utilities support the conversion of the following soft partition-based layouts:

• A simple soft partition on a disk slice with one or more extents.

  Simple soft partition on a disk slice with two extents shows the conversion of such a layout.

  Simple soft partition on a disk slice with two extents

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• Concat/Stripe on a soft partition on a disk slice with a single extent.

  Concat/stripe Solaris Volume Manager object on a soft partition on a disk slice with a single extent shows the conversion of such a layout.

  Concat/stripe Solaris Volume Manager object on a soft partition on a disk slice with a single extent

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• RAID-5 on a soft partition on a disk slice with a single extent.
• Concat/Stripe on a soft partition on a disk slice with multiple extents.

The utilities do not support the conversion of the following soft partition-based layouts:

• RAID-5 on soft partitions on a disk with multiple extents.
• Soft partition on a logical volume.

More information about soft partitions may be found in the Solaris documentation.

See "Check metadevices" on page 539.