I think that the partition tables of your devices do not match.
Compare the format output for both devices, if they do not match try this:
That error is not always helpful IMO. It has been a while on this, so please verify the fmthard command syntax, I'm not in a place where I can do that.
Hi everyone,
I'm new with solaris administration. I have just discovered the notion of METADEVICE and I really don't understand it. Can any one please explain it to me or give me useful link ?
I also want to know more about these commandes:
metainit
metadb
metaattach
Thank you
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In my infinite lack of wisdom, I brought a Solaris 10(Sparc, 64 bit ) system down to init 1, detached a metadrive so that I could run format->analyze->refresh on it, and then reinit'd and reattached it .
It started syncing the drive as it's a submirror of a mirrored drive, which happens... (8 Replies)
Hello I use Solaris 10. I need to restore the root file system, but I don't know how . i can only boot the server in safe mode or with the cd (ok boot cdrom -s)
Do you guys know a good procedure, I don't want to break the mirrors.
( the server is not a cluster).
Its an emergency, i would... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
currently I'm working on one problem. I have Sol10 box where I need to replace old storage for the new one with minimal downtime.
Layout of metadevice looks like this:
d103 p 1.0GB d100
d102 p 2.0GB d100
d101 p 1.0GB d100
d100 s ... (3 Replies)
At a new job, I've inherited a handful of Solaris 10 SunFire V240 servers.
I noticed that the metadevices are not consistent, in a way that I've not seen before....
internal mirrored disks:
metadevice d60 has c1t0d0s6 as submirror 0 (d61) and c1t1d0s6 as submirror 1 (d62)
metadevice... (1 Reply)
hi all
i am very new to solaris...i am trying configure raid 0 in my ultrascsi box which is having 6 sun36GB hard disks. I have created 4 state database replicas in the following slices /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s7 /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7 /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s7 and /dev/dsk/c1t4d0s7. i could not use any other... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am running Solaris 8 on a V880 which has recently crashed. It has got a fibre connection to a StorageTrek array containing my database info. Since the crash I have been unable to mount the 2 metadevices which correspond to /spool & /apps - these FS's contain my db info and theredore I... (20 Replies)
Hi All...
I have a script that checks for any problems(particularly looks for 'Needs Maintenance') with metadevices and alerts accordingly. This was not configured to alert for a particular metadevice. Now i want to negate alerting for a particular metadevice(say d40). Is this possible? I am... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am having two metadevices d50 and d100 which are used to created soft partitions as and when required.
d50 and d100 are metadevices formed on different disks.
d50 -- disks 0 & 1
d100 -- disks 2 & 3
I have a soft partition d70 os 50 GB on d50. Now there is no free space on d50.
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First I would like to thank this forum for assisting me in setting up my 1st sunbox.
Could not have done it if it had not been for you guys and google :D
I have mirrored my box and have SUCCESSFULLY tested booting from the rootdisk and rootmirror successfully.
I am now looking at configuring... (2 Replies)