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Operating Systems Solaris Partitioning hard disk. Want 8 slices...have 9 Post 302425169 by Celtic_Monkey on Thursday 27th of May 2010 09:26:41 AM
Old 05-27-2010
ah - so you should have had a corrupt label error in dmesg? did you check? ;-)

that was my next line of attack!
 

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getlabel(1)							   User Commands						       getlabel(1)

NAME
getlabel - display the label of files SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/getlabel [-sS] filename... DESCRIPTION
getlabel displays the label that is associated with each filename. When options are not specified, the output format of the label is dis- played in default format. OPTIONS
-s Display the label that is associated with filename in short form. -S Display the label that is associated with filename in long form. EXIT STATUS
getlabel exits with one of the following values: 0 Successful completion. 1 Unsuccessful completion due to usage error. 2 Unable to translate label. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWtsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |See below. | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ The command line is Committed. The output is Not-an-Interface. SEE ALSO
setlabel(1), m_label(3TSOL), label_encodings(4), attributes(5) NOTES
The functionality described on this manual page is available only if the system is configured with Trusted Extensions. SunOS 5.11 11 Jul 2008 getlabel(1)
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