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# 1  
Old 04-05-2011
Adding new hard drives on Sun SPARC T5440 server with Solaris 10
I need to add two new hard drives of 300 GB capacity to a SunSPARC T5440 server. The server currently has two hard drives of 146 GB each.
How do I add the new drives to the existing UFS?
What are the procedures involved in setting this server with the new hard drives? I am very new to Solaris Administration so any help will be appreciated.
# 2  
Old 04-05-2011
look for a new hardisk
Code:
su -
echo | format

then create new UFS on target HDD

Code:
newfs /dev/rdsk/xxxxxx

then add new disk to your /etc/fstab file to automatically mount at boot
# 3  
Old 04-05-2011
Thanks for a quick response. I am able to see the new hard disks when I do echo | format.

But when I use the newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0

I get an error - No such file or Directory.

Am I doing some thing wrong here?
# 4  
Old 04-05-2011
use

newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0sx

where x = 0 or 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6

you need to run format. select the new disk. setup the slice sizes and then run newfs against the slice(s) that you have created.
# 5  
Old 04-05-2011
Thanks for your help. I am currently formatting the partition. Will setup the file system next.
# 6  
Old 04-05-2011
A late comment but anyway, a much simpler method would have been to use ZFS instead of UFS. For example something like:
Code:
zpool create mirror c0t2d0 c0t2d1

and that's it.
# 7  
Old 04-15-2011
susheel
just attach the disks and run the command devfsadm and go for the formats for sparc it takes 7 slices convert it by label
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