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# 8  
Old 06-06-2008
Pls backup ur data 1st. Its a must. Then we will go abt re-partitioning.
# 9  
Old 06-06-2008
Ok,
So the backup is done...I went ahead bought loads of dvds and its done now...
can we proceed!!!
# 10  
Old 06-06-2008
Im confused again. By looking at the partition table, only 58G is available but you said you're using a 250G disk Smilie And your root slice cylinder starts at 3 instead od 0 ? why?Smilie
# 11  
Old 06-06-2008
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Im confused again. By looking at the partition table, only 58G is available but you said you're using a 250G disk Smilie And your root slice cylinder starts at 3 instead od 0 ? why?Smilie
it's solaris x86, so the bootblk and grub(?) is on slice 9 with cylinder 1-2. so root starts at cylinder 3...
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Old 06-06-2008
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Im confused again. By looking at the partition table, only 58G is available but you said you're using a 250G disk  And your root slice cylinder starts at 3 instead od 0 ? why?
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That is correct...
I have a 250G hard disk ,not a 250g partition for solaris...
Out of this 250g , i have 60g for solaris the rest is unaccounted for, or should i say unformatted!!!!
This is the reason why its showing 58G and i guess you got the ans for your confusion from the previous post itself...

PS:i am no expert in formatting the disk in solaris, so i have little idea thats all...
I need assistance!

Thanks
# 13  
Old 06-06-2008
Hi Wrapster, abit of prob here. I have ot done this before except for performing "growfs" , that is u can grow the filesystem size using SVM. But in your case, you might need to re-format your disk(meaning all your data will be lost). your disk is labelled as 60GB already. If you wanna to utilise the full space, you will need to do repartitioning from the beginning. No shortcut I guess.
# 14  
Old 06-06-2008
It looks like you are working with a 60 GB fdisk partition.

Post the output of fidisk -g and fdisk -G for the drive.
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