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Operating Systems Solaris DiskSuite mirroring on x86 ? Post 302159406 by rco on Thursday 17th of January 2008 06:11:04 PM
Old 01-17-2008
Thanks for the info but...

Is there something special about using fdisk?

I am currently working with an X4500 and I have already installed the system. The partitioning on the primary drive was done during the installation. I ran the prtvtoc command to move the vtoc over to the secondary drive. Created all of the metadevices ran metaroot rebooted and the box went bye bye. I couldn't even sync the mirrors. I verified my vfstab etc. and it was correct, but it couldn't seem to mount the root ( / ) slice as rw. I tried a couple variations in vfstab, and even tried to go back to mounting the original NON-metadevices but no luck. I ended up just rebuilding the system since I'm in a time crunch. I do need to get these mirrored though.

Thanks for any info. Oh, and yes, I did find the document at sun that indicates you should boot from a boot floppy. I haven't used one of those in at least 8 years and is not an acceptable resolution for a system of this caliber. Not to mention that it doesn't have a floppy drive. ;-)

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mount_pcfs(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    mount_pcfs(1M)

NAME
mount_pcfs - mount pcfs file systems SYNOPSIS
mount -F pcfs [generic_options] [-o FSType-specific_options] special | mount_point mount -F pcfs [generic_options] [-o FSType-specific_options] special mount_point DESCRIPTION
mount attaches an MS-DOS file system (pcfs) to the file system hierarchy at the mount_point, which is the pathname of a directory. If mount_point has any contents prior to the mount operation, these are hidden until the file system is unmounted. If mount is invoked with special or mount_point as the only arguments, mount will search /etc/vfstab to fill in the missing arguments, including the FSType-specific_options; see mount(1M) for more details. The special argument can be one of two special device file types: o A floppy disk, such as /dev/diskette0 or /dev/diskette1. o A DOS logical drive on a hard disk expressed as device-name:logical-drive , where device-name specifies the special block device-file for the whole disk and logical-drive is either a drive letter (c through z) or a drive number (1 through 24). Examples are /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:c and /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0:1. The special device file type must have a formatted MS-DOS file system with either a 12-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit File Allocation Table. OPTIONS
generic_options See mount(1M) for the list of supported options. -o Specify pcfs file system specific options. The following options are supported: foldcase|nofoldcase Force uppercase characters in filenames to lowercase when reading them from the filesystem. This is for compatibility with the pre- vious behavior of pcfs. The default is nofoldcase. FILES
/etc/mnttab table of mounted file systems /etc/vfstab list of default parameters for each file system ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mount(1M), mountall(1M), mount(2), mnttab(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), pcfs(7FS) NOTES
If the directory on which a file system is to be mounted is a symbolic link, the file system is mounted on the directory to which the sym- bolic link refers, rather than on top of the symbolic link itself. SunOS 5.10 24 Nov 2003 mount_pcfs(1M)
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