Hello Asif,
Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 11:55:09 PM, you wrote:
Asif Iqbal> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Randall Badilla Castro wrote:
>>
>>
>> Asif Iqbal wrote:
>>
>> >Hi All
>> >
>> >I have a StorEdge 3310 attached to a 420R. I am running solaris 8. I can see the
>> >attached disks using format
>> >
>> >All the disks on the StorEdge 3310 are 72 G. I am doing a fresh install so no
>> >chance of loosing data
>> >
>> >Now after the format and newfs one disk /dev/dsk/c3t10d0s2
>> >
>>
>> ^^^ must be rdsk
Asif Iqbal> I noticed if newfs the rawdisk on slice 2 ( for solaris thats the whole
disk ) I
Asif Iqbal> still cannot mount slice 6. I actullay have to newfs the the rawdisk silce
6 to
Asif Iqbal> mount slice 6 and same way for other slices. Wish there is a way I can
newfs the
Asif Iqbal> whole disk in one shot instead of newfs'ng each slice separately
Asif Iqbal> Thanks for your help
Well, no you can't !
This is the problem - slice 2 represents the whole disk and it's used
ONLY for backup the whole disk. If you want to use whole drive as one
do as Stoyan said - with format define one slice ( but not 2 !!! )72 G big,
and then newfs it.
Now this is what you are doing - you are newfsing slice 2, so there are some
file system structures created and placed in beginning of the slice ( and disk, as
slice 2 is the whole disk ). Now when you try to mount slice 6 as UFS,
the OS looks for the same structures in order to work with this file
system. If slice 6 does not represent the whole drive, OS will not
find the structures and therefore will not recognize the file systems
that it on that slice ( actually you don't have file system there )
and will give you an error.
HTH,
Peter
BTW newfs command is intelligent enough to work with raw disks even if
you give block device as parameter
>>
>> >now I am trying to
>> >mount a slice of that disk
>> >
>> >mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c3t10d0s6 /a and I get the following error
>> >
>> >mount: /dev/dsk/c3t10d0s6 is not this fstype
>> >
>> >even though I formatted that slice as 68G
>> >
>> >I also tried to mount without any option and got the same error
>> >
>> >Any help/suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated
>> >
>> >Thanks
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