cd /etc/init.d/
./sshd restart

This will restart SSH server without corrupting your session.

Initial hard drive slices look as below:

How it should look like at the end as below:

Before starting to play with ‘format’ utility, /etc/vfstab should be changed and mounted partitions either should be removed or commented out. Otherwise you will get an error saying, the partition you are trying to modify is already mounted.

After you’ve changed /etc/vfstab; you should modify slice 3 by putting same cylinders range with 6. That range starts with 1913 and you should put 30 gb. for the size, ending cylinder (5004) will be calculated automatically. Here we go:

#root etc>format
Searching for disks…done

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0
/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w500000e011e5faf1,0
1. c1t1d0
/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w500000e011e609d1,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c1t0d0
[disk formatted]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M).
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M).

FORMAT MENU:
disk – select a disk
type – select (define) a disk type
partition – select (define) a partition table
current – describe the current disk
format – format and analyze the disk
repair – repair a defective sector
label – write label to the disk
analyze – surface analysis
defect – defect list management
backup – search for backup labels
verify – read and display labels
save – save new disk/partition definitions
inquiry – show vendor, product and revision
volname – set 8-character volume name
! – execute , then return
quit
format> partition

PARTITION MENU:
0 – change `0′ partition
1 – change `1′ partition
2 – change `2′ partition
3 – change `3′ partition
4 – change `4′ partition
5 – change `5′ partition
6 – change `6′ partition
7 – change `7′ partition
select – select a predefined table
modify – modify a predefined partition table
name – name the current table
print – display the current table
label – write partition map and label to the disk
! – execute , then return
quit

partition> 3
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
3unassigned
wm 0 0 (0/0/0)Enter partition id tag[unassigned]: usr
Enter partition permission flags[wm]:
Enter new starting cyl[0]: 1913
Enter partition size[0, 0c, 0e, 0mb, 0gb]: 30gb

partition> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

Now you assigned ranges to slice 3 and saved configuration. Next step is to delete older one by giving 0 for number of cylinders and disk size:

partition> 6
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
6 usr wm 1913 – 5004 30.01GB (3092/0/0) 62928384

Enter partition id tag[usr]:
Enter partition permission flags[wm]:
Enter new starting cyl[1913]: 0
Enter partition size[62928384b, 3092c, 3091e, 30726.75mb, 30.01gb]: 0
partition> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

One problem I face with when I issued ‘label’ command was:

> label
Cannot label disk when partitions are in use as described.

And the solution for this:

The environment variable NOINUSE_CHECK (see PSARC/2005/461), when set, can be used to turn off this new functionality:

NOINUSE_CHECK=1
export NOINUSE_CHECK

Update your ~/.profile!