Solaris

Hello.
I have got Solaris 10 8/07 on x86 installed successfully using CDs. While I had inserted 1st CD - I created 2 new filesystems also.

But now after entering into Solaris - How do I manipulate sizes or created/delete filesystems by going to terminal?

Thank you!

Code:

man format

this is how to create and delete partitions

Code:

man mkfs

is how to layout a file system

Code:

man mkdir

is how to create a mount point

Code:

man vfstab

is how to tell the OS what partitions appear on what mount points.

Thank you for your reply.

1) What is the actual difference between filesystem and mount point?
2) How do we get previous command on terminal like in HP-UX (using esc k) or in AIX (set -o vi) works?

Thank you!

a disk is a series of bytes

a partition or slice is a sequential subset of those bytes

a filesystem is an arrangement of directories, files and inodes on a partition

a mountpoint is the inode used by the operating system to make the root of a filesystem appear.

eg say you had all variable data on one partition, you would have an empty directory on the root filesystem and mount the var filesystem at "/var", typically by an entry in "/etc/vfstab".

using "mount" or "df" will show you different views of all the current active mountpoints.

in regards to shell, I use bash on Solaris, it solves all my character mapping problems.

I have got 2 FileSystems visible when I use df -k or mount command /u00 and /u01 of 5 GB and 10 GB respectively. Can you please let me know exact commands to execute for below:

1) Delete /u00
2) Modify /u01 from 10 GB size to 5 GB size
3) Create /u02 (new fs) of size 10 GB

Thank you - by using bash the issue of shells resolved.

Why don't you do something like just rename /u01 to /u02, and rename /u00 to /u01?

This would be done by

umount /u00
umount /u01

rmdir /u00
mkdir /u02

edit /etc/vfstab to change the reference from /u01 to /u02, and /u00 to /u01.

then

mount /u01
mount /u02

Hello - Thanks for your reply, It was quite short n sweet method - I was struggling so many big commands

However, I got an error in last while using #mount /u02
mount: No such device
mount: Cannot mount /dev/dsk/c0d0s4

Please advice.