Thanks.... c0t0d0 is the boot and is not include in the RAID. Need the space for program + oracle databases (large partitions due to med. network node build + collecting 30 days data on nodes)


I have played around and managed to create database replicas, and a RAID5 metadevice.

(I just picked 4 slices from 4 drives and created the metadevice for practice to get a feel for it).

# metastat
d10: RAID
State: Okay
Interlace: 64 blocks
Size: 62364843 blocks
Original device:
Size: 62365632 blocks
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c0t1d0s6 3539 Yes Okay
c1t1d0s6 3539 Yes Okay
c1t2d0s6 3539 Yes Okay
c1t3d0s6 3539 Yes Okay


VFSTAB FILE:
# more vfstab
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
#
#/dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s2 /usr ufs 1 yes -
fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap - no -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 / ufs 1 no
-
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6 /usr ufs 1 no
-
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3 /var ufs 1 no
-
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 /export/home ufs 2
yes -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s5 /opt ufs 2 yes
-
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
/dev/md/dsk/d10 /dev/md/rdsk/d10 /var/mail ufs 2 yes
-

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Last line shows "d10" metadevice. I wanted to combine these partitions and create 1 partition (/db01).

How do I call this partition db01 and mount? I tried "/" and "/db01" in the vfstab file for mount point and it did not show up.

I have it mounting /var/mail (from someone else's example and it worked).
# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 4032504 63092 3929087 2% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 4032504 800571 3191608 21% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 4032504 114020 3878159 3% /var
swap 15718944 16 15718928 1% /var/run
swap 15719560 632 15718928 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 5773212 2133 5713347 1% /opt
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 5040814 385457 4604949 8% /export/home
/dev/md/dsk/d10 30696394 9 30389422 1% /var/mail

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Once I figure out how to do one metadevice (db01), I plan to create (db02,03, 04).

Also how can I access the new /db01 to install files?

Currently mounted to /var/mail/ and mail folder properties report 512 kb? But df -k reports full amount?

Please help again.