12-23-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by
reborg
This is not fully correct. In an x86 system, the amount of space available does not always equate to what is seen in the format command. I can for example create multiple solaris fdisk partitions smaller than the entire size of the disk and have them individually show up in format.
An example of this in this system is that the Windows partition doesn't show up anywhere.
use fdisk.
Delete partition 3, then create it again as a solaris partition.
then do a "devfsadm"
Then try format again.
you are absolutely right, I didn't know it's an X86/X64 machine
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