New to Solaris question help please

Question

Just successfully installed Solaris 10 on VMWare ESXi and assigned it 50GB of HDD space. When I type df -h I see that 79% of my disk is used and the rest of the storage is nowhere to be found.
I'm new to Solaris is this because the rest of the drive hasn't been partitioned? Some help would be greatly appreciate so that I can take advantage of the rest of my volume...
Thanks!
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 7.9G 6.1G 1.7G 79% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 1.5G 880K 1.5G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
7.9G 6.1G 1.7G 79% /lib/libc.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 1.5G 2.2M 1.5G 1% /tmp
swap 1.6G 84M 1.5G 6% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c0d0s7 7.9G 8.0M 7.8G 1% /export/home
/dev/dsk/c0d0s6 6.8G 7.0M 6.8G 1% /export/software
/hgfs 16G 4.0M 16G 1% /hgfs
/tmp/VMwareDnD 0K 0K 0K 0% /var/run/vmblock

Answer 1

I don't recall allocating anything during installation.Which means that you did a default installation with no customization. Looking over your file system layout confirms this.
I have an update df -h listing as well (I installed on a different system)
# df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 4.6G 4.0G 596M 88% /
/devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devices
ctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contract
proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 1.7G 868K 1.7G 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/object
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
4.6G 4.0G 596M 88% /lib/libc.so.1
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 1.7G 120K 1.7G 1% /tmp
swap 1.7G 24K 1.7G 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 44G 245M 43G 1% /export/home
From this, I understand that /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 has a size 4.6GB (assuming the OS is installed here) when I download items to the desktop, it appears they are placed in this "disk"?Depends on where you told Firefox to place them by default. You could just as easily configure it, Edit, Preferences, Main, Downloads, tell it to place the downloads somewhere else.
> Also, /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7 is where 44GB of free storage resides, I believe this is located in /export/home (as a folder with 44GB of space available) as far as my knowledge of Solaris is concerned.
Correct. Solaris is a multi-user system that leaves plenty of space for user home directories which default to /export/home. IMNSHO the space that is leaves behind for / is usually small enough to make the system unusable after applying only a few patches. If you switch to OpenSolaris 2008.11 you can ZFS which will mitigate most of these problems.
Just a little confusing to a newbie, coming from a Microsoft background (forgive me!) I am used to seeing volumes as icons in My Computer.The Windows tool for managing disks is nice and graphical.
What's your advice for managing volumes, formating to ZFS, maybe some visual method of understanding volumes?If you haven't done much with the system then you might consider switching to OpenSolaris with the caveat that some parts of Solaris are not available in OpenSolaris because of licensing issues. However, for someone who's just starting out you won't miss them.
For understanding, http://www.docs.sun.com / Solaris / Administration and then look for the two books on Disk Management. One is for ZFS and the other is for UFS. ZFS and Volume Manager Administration
alan