How to use FORMAT and PARTITION command on Solaris 9


 
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Old 11-09-2007
Wrong partition

/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 is the partition labeled "backup" with a size of 136Gb

/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3 is the partition labeled "usr" with a size of 30 GB
# 9  
Old 11-11-2007
Thanks a lot - Its resolved now :-) Please help me in knowing few basic questions.

1) How to create more than 7 partitions?
2) Slice 9 seems to be unassigned. But I am not able to allocate 9 - It says '9' is not expected as shown below:

Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 524 - 2482 15.01GB (1959/0/0) 31471335
1 swap wu 1 - 523 4.01GB (523/0/0) 8401995
2 backup wm 0 - 17831 136.60GB (17832/0/0) 286471080
3 usr wm 2484 - 6400 30.01GB (3917/0/0) 62926605
4 usr wm 2485 - 3790 10.00GB (1306/0/0) 20980890
5 usr wm 2486 - 5096 20.00GB (2611/0/0) 41945715
6 usr wm 2487 - 5097 20.00GB (2611/0/0) 41945715
7 usr wm 2488 - 5098 20.00GB (2611/0/0) 41945715
8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065
9 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0

partition> 9
`9' is not expected.


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