08-24-2006
Inappropriate ioctl for device, format error
When I try to format a slice in Solaris 10 I get the follow error :
-bash-3.00# mkfs /dev/dsk/c1d0s5 18877824
Can not determine partition size: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Some format command output:....
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 38735 alt 2 hd 64 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
1. c2d0 <DEFAULT cyl 39887 alt 2 hd 64 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7/ide@1/cmdk@0,0
partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 38735 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 6227 - 21464 29.30GB (15238/0/0)
61439616
1 swap wu 3 - 1018 1.95GB (1016/0/0)
4096512
2 backup wm 0 - 38734 74.47GB (38735/0/0)
156179520
3 unassigned wm 6118 - 6168 100.41MB (51/0/0)
205632
4 unassigned wm 6168 - 6218 100.41MB (51/0/0)
205632
5 unassigned wm 1070 - 5751 9.00GB (4682/0/0)
18877824
6 unassigned wm 21465 - 38734 33.20GB (17270/0/0)
69632640
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0)
0
8 boot wu 0 - 0 1.97MB (1/0/0)
4032
9 alternates wu 1 - 2 3.94MB (2/0/0)
8064
If I try to mount that slice I got:
-bash-3.00# mount /dev/dsk/c1d0s5 /mnt/tmp/
mount: /dev/dsk/c1d0s5 is not this fstype
What's wrong? Can you help me ?
Thanks
Fabio
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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)