Good morning to one and all :-) Thank god its Friday, as its bee na rubbish week for me !
So, a quick question. Disks ! Ive got a few local disks, and a few SAN disks used on my solaris server. Whats confusing me, and Im not sure if there's an issue at the SAN end, or my end, regarding the naming of the disks withnin format, and the number of partitions available.
Examples :-
if I do a format, I see :-
Code:
2. c2t202400A0B8117594d0 <STK-FLEXLINE380-0619 cyl 25598 alt 2 hd 64 sec 64>
/pci@1,700000/SUNW,qlc@0,1/fp@0,0/ssd@w202400a0b8117594,0
3. c2t202400A0B8117594d1 <STK-FLEXLINE 380-0619-50.00GB>
/pci@1,700000/SUNW,qlc@0,1/fp@0,0/ssd@w202400a0b8117594,1
4. c2t203500A0B8117594d0 <STK-FLEXLINE380-0619 cyl 25598 alt 2 hd 64 sec 64>
/pci@1,700000/SUNW,qlc@0,1/fp@0,0/ssd@w203500a0b8117594,0
5. c2t203500A0B8117594d1 <STK-FLEXLINE380-0619 cyl 25598 alt 2 hd 64 sec 64>
/pci@1,700000/SUNW,qlc@0,1/fp@0,0/ssd@w203500a0b8117594,1
Disk 2,4,and 5 are have different labels / types / details, than disk 3 ? Howcome, when they are all from the SAN ?? Does this mean Ive done the wrong `type` via format ?
This seems to effect the number of partitions too. disks 2,4 and 5 have :-
partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk sectors available: 104841182 + 16384 (reserved sectors)
Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
0 usr wm 256 10.00GB 20971775
1 unassigned wm 0 0 0
2 unassigned wm 0 0 0
3 unassigned wm 0 0 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 0
5 usr wm 41943296 10.00GB 62914815
6 usr wm 20971776 10.00GB 41943295
8 reserved wm 104841183 8.00MB 104857566
When I was creating the ZFS / formating the local disks, I had to do a format -e and alter the SMI / EFI types then, which effect the number of slices. However, this doesnt seem to work for the SAN disks. Even if I do a format -e, or try to label the disks, dont get this option.
So, a little confused ?? So, any help from the Unix Gurus would be tremendous.
Im using solaris 10 by the way.
SBK
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 07-31-2009 at 05:50 AM..
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