I have this setup, i can only find docs to unmirror a raid 1 set, how do you get rid of a raid 5 set? the same way? metadetach and metaclear?
d8: RAID
State: Okay
Interlace: 32 blocks
Size: 142245693 blocks (67 GB)
Original device:
Size: 142247872 blocks (67 GB)
... (2 Replies)
hi
this may be a very stupid question, but im quite new to Solaris (gonna buid my first system, Solaris 10 on x86 system, connected to other windows systems in a home network)
i wanna put a RAID 5 system in there to back up my other systems at home; iv read that its really so easy with SVM to... (4 Replies)
Hi ,
I am new to SVM .when i try to learn RAID 1 , first they are creating two RAID 0 strips through
metainit d51 1 1 c0t0d0s2
metainit d52 1 1 c1t0d0s2
In the next step
metainit d50 -m d51
d50: Mirror is setup
next step is
metaattach d50 d52
d50 : submirror d52 is... (7 Replies)
Hello everyone,
Background:
I'm having an issue with booting a clone of hard drive with Solaris 8 installation.
For cloning process I have used g4l, running under click'n'clone option. As far as I know the actual operation ran behind g4l's interface was dd, though I do not have any information... (12 Replies)
I just built a home computer with 3TB hard drives I wanted to set up in a RAID 5 and load Ubuntu server onto it.
The first thing I did was set up the drives in a RAID 5 using just the motherboard chipset software to do it, so a 'hardware' RAID basically.
I installed Windows first to see if... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a scsi pci x raid controller card on which I had created a disk array of 3 disks
when I type lspv ; I used to see 3 physical disks ( two local disks and one raid 5 disk )
suddenly the raid 5 disk array disappeared ; so the hardware engineer thought the problem was with SCSI... (0 Replies)
Server Model: T5120 with 146G x4 disks.
OS: Solaris 10 - installed on c1t0d0.
Plan to use software raid (veritas volume mgr) on c1t2d0 disk.
After format and label the disk, still not able to detect using vxdiskadm.
Question:
Should I remove the hardware raid on c1t2d0 first?
My... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I want to delete a RAID configuration an old server has.
Since i haven't the chance to work with the specific raid controller in the past can you please help me how to perform the configuraiton?
I downloaded IBM ServeRAID Support CD but i wasn't able to configure the video card so i... (0 Replies)
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prtvtoc
prtvtoc(1M) System Administration Commands prtvtoc(1M)NAME
prtvtoc - report information about a disk geometry and partitioning
SYNOPSIS
prtvtoc [-fhs] [-t vfstab] [-m mnttab] device
DESCRIPTION
The prtvtoc command allows the contents of the label to be viewed. The command can be used only by the super-user.
The device name can be the file name of a raw device in the form of /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s2 or can be the file name of a block device in the
form of /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s2.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f Report on the disk free space, including the starting block address of the free space, number of blocks, and unused parti-
tions.
-h Omit the headers from the normal output.
-m mnttab Use mnttab as the list of mounted filesystems, in place of /etc/mnttab.
-s Omit all headers but the column header from the normal output.
-t vfstab Use vfstab as the list of filesystem defaults, in place of /etc/vfstab.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using the prtvtoc Command
The following example uses the prtvtoc command on a 424-megabyte hard disk:
example# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2
* /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2 partition map
*
* Dimension:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 80 sectors/track
* 9 tracks/cylinder
* 720 sectors/cylinder
* 2500 cylinders
* 1151 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
* * First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 0 76320 76319 /
1 3 01 76320 132480 208799
2 5 00 0 828720 828719
5 6 00 208800 131760 340559 /opt
6 4 00 340560 447120 787679 /usr
7 8 00 787680 41040 828719 /export/home
example#
The data in the Tag column above indicates the type of partition, as follows:
Name Number
UNASSIGNED 0x00
BOOT 0x01
ROOT 0x02
SWAP 0x03
USR 0x04
BACKUP 0x05
STAND 0x06
VAR 0x07
HOME 0x08
ALTSCTR 0x09
CACHE 0x0a
RESERVED 0x0b
The data in the Flags column above indicates how the partition is to be mounted, as follows:
Name Number
MOUNTABLE, READ AND WRITE 0x00
NOT MOUNTABLE 0x01
MOUNTABLE, READ ONLY 0x10
Example 2: Using the prtvtoc Command with the -f Option
The following example uses the prtvtoc command with the -f option on a 424-megabyte hard disk:
example# prtvtoc -f /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2
FREE_START=0 FREE_SIZE=0 FREE_COUNT=0 FREE_PART=34
Example 3: Using the prtvtoc Command on a Disk Over One Terabyte
The following example uses uses the prtvtoc command on a disk over one terabyte:.
example# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2
* /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 3187630080 sectors
* 3187630013 accessible sectors
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 34 262144 262177
1 3 01 262178 262144 524321
6 4 00 524322 3187089340 3187613661
8 11 00 3187613662 16384 318763004
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO devinfo(1M), fmthard(1M), format(1M), mount(1M), attributes(5)WARNINGS
The mount command does not check the "not mountable" bit.
SunOS 5.10 25 Jul 2002 prtvtoc(1M)
08-16-2010
I should've thought to try that ><