Solaris

Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 2882 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,2/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c1d0
Controller working list found
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.
/dev/dsk/c1d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M).
/dev/dsk/c1d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M).
Total disk size is 19457 cylinders
Total disk size is 19457 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks

Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 DOS-BIG 1 12748 12748 66
2 Active Solaris2 12749 15632 2884 15
3 DOS-BIG 15633 19456 3824 20



SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
1. Create a partition
2. Specify the active partition
3. Delete a partition
4. Change between Solaris and Solaris2 Partition IDs
5. Exit (update disk configuration and exit)
6. Cancel (exit without updating disk configuration)
Enter Selection:



This is what I get when i try to use FDISK, nothing there looks like a 30GB partition, also I wasnt expecting any percentage to have been used out of the 30GB is this was meant to be empty recently formatted partition somewhere.

Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 2882 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 968 - 2881 14.66GB (1914/0/0) 30748410
1 swap wu 3 - 68 517.72MB (66/0/0) 1060290
2 backup wm 0 - 2881 22.08GB (2882/0/0) 46299330
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 home wm 196 - 967 5.91GB (772/0/0) 12402180
8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065
9 alternates wu 1 - 2 15.69MB (2/0/0) 32130


please see the partition table, I have executed the print command.

This is not fully correct. In an x86 system, the amount of space available does not always equate to what is seen in the format command. I can for example create multiple solaris fdisk partitions smaller than the entire size of the disk and have them individually show up in format.

An example of this in this system is that the Windows partition doesn't show up anywhere.

use fdisk.

Delete partition 3, then create it again as a solaris partition.

then do a "devfsadm"

Then try format again.

you are absolutely right, I didn't know it's an X86/X64 machine

how did you create the "oracle" partition.... partition 3? i'm wondering if its formatted as something other then a unix-style fs such as ntfs.