02-07-2007
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
Last edited by duke0001; 02-07-2007 at 12:55 PM..
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cmdk(7D) Devices cmdk(7D)
NAME
cmdk - common disk driver
SYNOPSIS
cmdk@target, lun : [ partition | slice ]
DESCRIPTION
The cmdk device driver is a common interface to various disk devices. The driver supports magnetic fixed disks and magnetic removable
disks.
The block-files access the disk using the system's normal buffering mechanism and are read and written without regard to physical disk
records. There is also a "raw" interface that provides for direct transmission between the disk and the user's read or write buffer. A sin-
gle read or write call usually results in one I/O operation; raw I/O is therefore considerably more efficient when many bytes are transmit-
ted. The names of the block files are found in /dev/dsk; the names of the raw files are found in /dev/rdsk.
I/O requests to the magnetic disk must have an offset and transfer length that is a multiple of 512 bytes or the driver returns an EINVAL
error.
Slice 0 is normally used for the root file system on a disk, slice 1 as a paging area (for example, swap), and slice 2 for backing up the
entire fdisk partition for Solaris software. Other slices may be used for usr file systems or system reserved area.
Fdisk partition 0 is to access the entire disk and is generally used by the fdisk(1M) program.
FILES
/dev/dsk/cndn[s|p]n block device (IDE)
/dev/rdsk/cndn[s|p]n raw device (IDE)
where:
cn controller n
dn lun n (0-7)
sn UNIX system slice n (0-15)
pn fdisk partition(0)
/kernel/drv/cmdk 32-bit kernel module.
/kernel/drv/amd64/cmdk 64-bit kernel module.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |x86 |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
fdisk(1M), mount(1M), lseek(2), read(2), write(2), readdir(3C), scsi(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), dkio(7I)
SunOS 5.10 9 Oct 2004 cmdk(7D)