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Operating Systems Solaris How to use FORMAT and PARTITION command on Solaris 9 Post 302106244 by duke0001 on Wednesday 7th of February 2007 10:24:15 AM

02-07-2007

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How to use FORMAT and PARTITION command on Solaris 9

I am seeking advice from experts in this forum. Please help me.

I have tow disks on Sun Sparc box. Disk one has been installed Solaris 9 system. The disk two has been partitioned as one disk with 140 GB on the partition /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6. Right now, I want to modify it as two partitions. I have typed ' man format' to read the description. But I am still not sure about these synopsises. I like to partition disk two as two partitions. one will be using the same partition as /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6 with about 90 GB. another partition will be /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s5 with about 50 GB. Could you please help me on necessary steps using FORMAT or PARTITION commands with options. I will appreciated your kindness very much. The current partitioned table layout like this:

Part tag flag cylinders size
0 root wm 0 - 12 129.19MB
1 swap wu 13 - 25 129.19MB
2 backup wu 0 - 14086 136.71GB
3 unassigned wm 0 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0
6 usr wm 26 - 14086 136.36GB
7 unassigned wm 0 0

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partx

PARTX(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  PARTX(8)

NAME

       partx - telling the kernel about presence and numbering of on-disk partitions.

SYNOPSIS

       partx [-a|-d|-l] [--type TYPE] [--nr M-N] [partition] disk

DESCRIPTION

       Given  a  block	device	(  disk  ) and a partition table type , try to parse the partition table, and list the contents. Optionally add or
       remove partitions.

       This is not an fdisk - adding and removing partitions is not a change of the disk, but just telling the kernel about presence and numbering
       of on-disk partitions.

OPTIONS

       -a     add specified partitions or read disk and add all partitions

       -d     delete specified or all partitions

       -l     list partitions. Note that the all numbers are in 512-byte sectors.

       --type TYPE
	      Specify the partition type -- dos, bsd, solaris, unixware or gpt.

       --nr M-N
	      Specify the range of partitions (e.g --nr 2-4).

SEE ALSO

       addpart(8), delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The partx command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

								    11 Jan 2007 							  PARTX(8)