Solaris

Firstly - consult the documentation of Sun Volume Manager(see below whythis product) you GOT TO know what your doing before you execute commands in a business\corporate\enterprise environment

Secondly, I'll give you the secret of Disksuite (which was then renamed to Solstice, and now SUN Volume Manager)
Disksuite mirrors Metadata, which essential represents VOLUMES.
And as a volume can span more than on disk....( ah !)

# metainit d10 1 2 c1t4d0s3 c1t5d0s3 -i 32k
# metainit d20 1 2 c1t6d0s3 c1t7d0s3 -i 32k

d10 or d20 - metadevice name
1 - Total Number of Stripe
2- Number of Slices to be added to stripe followed by slice name .
-i chunks of data written alternatively on stripes.
s3 = slice 3 = represents the entire disk


# metainit d10 -m d21

d21 being the mirror of d10

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Their's the essential bones, you have the documentation to construct the body...Go Frankenstein !

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Ms Stevie

Correction:

# metainit d10 -m d20

(in this scanario)

Thank you very much.

I just about had it right.

This is what I was thinking:

Format the drives to have all their space on slice 6 then...

#metainit d16 1 2 c1t4d0s6 c1t5d0s6 -i 32k
#metainit d26 1 2 c1t6d0s6 c1t7d0s6 -i 32k

#metainit d6 -m d16

#metattach d6 d26

then make the new file system:

#newfs /dev/md/rdsk/d6

then edit /etc/vfstab

test this editing by using:

# mountall -v

to mount the new fs using the new parameters in the vfstab file on the new metadevice

write data to it.

Done


Is that very much different from what you are doing? Looks like you just know a way to do it in fewer steps.

Thank you for the advice/help,