Golly gee, in the few minutes since I decided to create a reference category, I had to find a reference to a Sun blueprints document I’ve referred to a few different times for work — including today. Time to make the blog a little more useful for everyday work, too…
The short version, in Sun’s words on page 3:
We recommend you follow this basic rule:
Do not partition unless there is a compelling reason to do so.
Here’s the Sun Blueprints document Configuring Boot Disks With Solaris™ Volume Manager Software