Yes, as I said in my previous post, I was able to create the pool again, and it is now online. I can destroy the pool again and then be able to access the disk, but still am stuck at how to partition the disk.
Yes, I used fdisk subcommand, this is the disk after I created a label:
I want to know how can I create a couple partitions.
Last edited by Scott; 06-07-2013 at 06:46 PM..
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Hello!
I recently inherited system administration duties for a SUN v880 box. The system has 6 physical hard disks.. In doing some basic maintenance, I found they're configured for mirroring. I ran the metastat and metadb commands, and many of the mirrors are showing they are in need of... (5 Replies)
Hi, I have a AIX 4.3 box here with problems cause of a disk in below VG.
volume group: workvg
lspv
hdisk4 000166789869ab2d workvg
hdisk5 000166789869b96b workvg
now hdisk4 disk has failed and cause the quorum was set, workvg became varied off.
I have to replace the... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to do mirror in solaris 9. I have total 0-7 disks
4 5 6 7
0 1 2 3
Drive 0 and Drive 4 = Boot Drives
Need to Mirror following drives.
Drive 1 and Drive 5 = Need to mirror
Drive 1 was mounted on: /prod1, /prod2, /prod3, /prod4, /prod5.
Then i... (3 Replies)
hi guys,
I've got a strange issue, may be one of you has experienced this.
SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
everything is mirrored.
My issue is that I have a umpty directory but seems to have data on. Let me show you
# df -h /data
Filesystem size used... (10 Replies)
We have a filesystem which contains 8 hard disks but i am facing disk I/O issue becuase data is not spreading across all the disks.Is there any way i can check how data is spreading and any parameter we need to change to spread ata across all disks.
OS--AIX 5.3 (3 Replies)
Need a procedure document to do "root disk mirroring in solaris volume manager for solaris 10". I hope some one will help me asap. I need to do it production environment.
Let me know if you need any deatils on this.
Thanks,
Rama (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I guess most of you have seen this error message while installing Solaris 10 on an x86 platform. I got the error message while installing from DVD ISO on my home VMWare ESXi server.
It took me a long time to figure the exact issue and a subsequent solution. the solution is very... (1 Reply)
I have a solaris 10 system configured using NetApp as its storage, and the file systems are already configured as you can see from the example below:
root@moneta # df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0 9.8G 513M 9.3G 6% /
... (0 Replies)
I have a solaris 10 system configured using NetApp as its storage, and the file systems are already configured as you can see from the example below:
root@moneta # df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0 9.8G 513M 9.3G 6% /... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
Our Solaris 9? Sun Fire 480R backup server(in another city) is throwing disk errors such as these repeatedly.
WARNING: vxvm:vxio: Subdisk rootdisk-02 block 24037056: Uncorrectable read error
WARNING: vxvm:vxio: Subdisk rootdisk-02 block 7767072: Uncorrectable write error
... (18 Replies)
Discussion started by: RyanV
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
disktab
disktab(5) File Formats Manual disktab(5)Name
disktab - disk description file
Syntax
#include <disktab.h>
Description
The file is a simple data base that describes disk geometries and disk partition characteristics. The format is patterned after the termi-
nal data base. Entries in consist of a number of fields separated by colons (:). The first entry for each disk gives the names that are
known for the disk, separated by vertical bars (|). The last name given should be a long name fully identifying the disk.
The following list indicates the normal values stored for each disk entry:
Name Type Description
ns num Number of sectors per track
nt num Number of tracks per cylinder
nc num Total number of cylinders on the disk
ba num Block size for partition `a' (bytes)
bd num Block size for partition `d' (bytes)
be num Block size for partition `e' (bytes)
bf num Block size for partition `f' (bytes)
bg num Block size for partition `g' (bytes)
bh num Block size for partition `h' (bytes)
fa num Fragment size for partition `a' (bytes)
fd num Fragment size for partition `d' (bytes)
fe num Fragment size for partition `e' (bytes)
ff num Fragment size for partition `f' (bytes)
fg num Fragment size for partition `g' (bytes)
fh num Fragment size for partition `h' (bytes)
pa num Size of partition `a' in sectors
pb num Size of partition `b' in sectors
pc num Size of partition `c' in sectors
pd num Size of partition `d' in sectors
pe num Size of partition `e' in sectors
pf num Size of partition `f' in sectors
pg num Size of partition `g' in sectors
ph num Size of partition `h' in sectors
se num Sector size in bytes
ty str Type of disk (e.g. removable, winchester)
The entries can be automatically generated with the program.
FilesSee Alsochpt(8), newfs(8)disktab(5)