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I'm running sun volume manager on solaris 9. I have two hotspares and
are currently on standby. Both are not being utilized.
Can I newfs both of them? Do I need to deleted the hostpares first,
then newfs?


hsp002: 2 hot spares
Device Status Length Reloc
c3t5d6s6 Available 285147392 blocks Yes
c4t5d6s6 Available 285147392 blocks Yes

hsp001: 2 hot spares
Device Status Length Reloc
c4t5d6s6 Available 285147392 blocks Yes
c3t5d6s6 Available 285147392 blocks Yes

screw it!!! i'm just goint to unassociate the hospares and recreate them. Here is my plan:

metaparam -h none d111 d112 d101 d102 d91 d92 d81 d82 d71 d72 d61 d62

metahs -d hsp001 c3t5d6s6
metahs -d hsp001 c4t5d6s6

metahs -d hsp002 c3t5d6s6
metahs -d hsp002 c4t5d6s6

newfs -r 10000 /dev/rdsk/c3t5d6s6
newfs -r 10000 /dev/rdsk/c4t5d6s6

metainit hsp001 c4t5d6s6 c3t5d6s6
metainit hsp002 c3t5d6s6 c4t5d6s6

metaparam -h hsp001 d111 d101 d91 d81 d71 d61
metaparam -h hsp002 d112 d102 d92 d82 d72 d62

any suggestions?

I don't understand what you are trying to do. What is the point of the newfs commands?

we initially screwed up the hotpsares when we set it up. we did'nt assign enough inodes to the hotspares. so, we had to newfs it again to assign more inodes.