Solaris

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

you can use the format command to format a drive.... for example: format /dev/rdsk/c0t5d0s2

You can use partition in the format menu to partition your disk...

Regards,
Johan Louwers.

The drive is already formatted. Just change the partitions using the format command -> par -> select slice -> label the disk and you are done.

Thanks. I have done with these steps.
1. umount current filesystem.
2. use format / partition / modify to re-partition 2nd disk into 2 partitions. One is 36GB and another one is 100GB.
3. re-create filesystem on each of partition and mount them. Done!!

Hey,

you're sure you take partition number 2 or partition 2 (number 1)?
Remember - partition 2 is the whole disk, don't change this partition!!

Changing partitions is easy:
format -> partition -> number of partition
set new values
when ready take a look with print partition table,
the label the disk.
After quit the format program, construct new filesystems
on your new partitions and mount them. Don't forget the /etc/vfstab

CU
lowbyte

lowbyte:

Thanks for your help. I worked on 2nd disk (I also have 1st disk with partition) to modify original partition as two partitions. One is named as /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s6 and another one as /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7. Then I check the cylinders and label the partition. Then I rebuilt FS and mount them.