Solaris

I have 2 hard disks ,one hard disk(40gb) completely for windows Os,and the other(120gb) for solaris Os.

In the second hard disk.I have utilised around 10gb for the solaris installation and also partitioned with the available 10gb space for the solaris x86 OS.

Now i need to utilise the remaining unused & unpartitioned space on the 120gb hard disk.

Is it possible to add the space to the solaris partition now.Iam able to utilise the unused space for the windows.How to do it for the solaris.Can someone help me?

Regards,
N.Jayaprakash

use growfs

growfs won't work for at least two reasons: it is unsupported on root fs and it requires a free contiguous slice. There are workarounds but a simpler approach would be to create a new partition with fdisk using the remaining space then create a zfs pool on it.

Can you give me the steps involved to create a partition using fdisk and to do a zfs pool on it.

Thanks,
jayaprakash

What is your current partition table ?

Code:

fdisk -v -W - /dev/rdsk/cXdYp0

(replace cXdYp0 by your real disk device)

Have a look here too:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819...d-19036?a=view

Thank you for this jlliagre.I will try to give you the partition table information,when i return home.Also i will try to follow your steps for creating the fdisk partition.

Regards,
jayaprakash

Here is the available disk & partition table information ,


# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0d0 <drive type unknown>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
1. c0d1 <DEFAULT cyl 1273 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 1
selecting c0d1
Controller working list found
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
/dev/dsk/c0d1s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M).
Total disk size is 19457 cylinders
Total disk size is 19457 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks

Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Active Solaris2 1 1275 1275 7
2 EXT LBA 1653 2927 1275 7
3 Ext Win95 2928 4325 1398 7



partition> print
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 1273 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 361 - 1272 6.99GB (912/0/0) 14651280
1 swap wu 3 - 68 517.72MB (66/0/0) 1060290
2 backup wm 0 - 1272 9.75GB (1273/0/0) 20450745
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 home wm 69 - 360 2.24GB (292/0/0) 4690980
8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065
9 alternates wu 1 - 2 15.69MB (2/0/0) 32130


So this is what my solaris disk strucure is,so i i need to utilize the

c0d1 hard disk (120gb).Is it possible to do it?

Regards,
jayaprakash