Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] find size of raw disks

2010-11-23 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Thanks... very helpful. I noticed though that once a disk is formatted or put into a zpool the cyl no. is no longer given, but then the size is shown I did also find a diffeent answer too. `iostat -En ' Appears to give both the names and the sizes. But not sure it would still be useful

[OpenIndiana-discuss] find size of raw disks

2010-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there some way to determine the size of disks discovered with `format' An attempt to create a 2 disk mirror failed with the message that the disks were different sizes, but I thought they were the same size... I must have used the wrong identifier for one of the disks... so to find the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] find size of raw disks

2010-11-21 Thread McBofh
On 22/11/10 01:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there some way to determine the size of disks discovered with `format' An attempt to create a 2 disk mirror failed with the message that the disks were different sizes, but I thought they were the same size... I must have used the wrong identifier

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] find size of raw disks

2010-11-21 Thread Harry Putnam
McBofh james.c.mcpher...@gmail.com writes: On 22/11/10 01:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there some way to determine the size of disks discovered with `format' An attempt to create a 2 disk mirror failed with the message that the disks were different sizes, but I thought they were the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] find size of raw disks

2010-11-21 Thread Chris Ridd
On 22 Nov 2010, at 04:14, Harry Putnam wrote: McBofh james.c.mcpher...@gmail.com writes: It's mostly the cylinder numbers that you need to watch out for. If you have devices with the same claimed manufacturer size but different geometry, I'd create a slice of the maximum size on the