Hi

I have recently mirrored the boot disks on my machine using Veritas
Volume Manager VxVM 4.1 and Solaris 9. Ater mirroring the disks when i
look at the partition table, following questions come in my mind


1. Is this a problem, if root slice does not start from cylinder 0 i.e.

it starts from cylinder 2 or any other.?
2. should the partition table of both disks look same ?


I am pasting the partition tables of both disks below


Disk 1
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 6595 - 9686 15.00GB (3092/0/0)
31464192
1 swap wu 0 - 6594 32.00GB (6595/0/0)
67110720
2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0)
143349312
3 - wu 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0)
143349312
4 - wu 14085 - 14086 9.94MB (2/0/0)
20352
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0)
0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0)
0
7 unassigned wm 9687 - 9790 516.75MB (104/0/0)
1058304


Disk 2


Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 2 - 3093 15.00GB (3092/0/0)
31464192
1 swap wu 3198 - 9792 32.00GB (6595/0/0)
67110720
2 backup wu 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0)
143349312
3 - wu 1 - 1 4.97MB (1/0/0)
10176
4 - wu 2 - 14086 68.34GB (14085/0/0)
143328960
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0)
0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0)
0
7 unassigned wm 3094 - 3197 516.75MB (104/0/0)
1058304


Also, tell me if there are any good practices for mirroring boot disks
as i have to mirror boot devices of other systems using veritas volume
manager.


Regards
Arif Iqbal