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Old 06-30-2005
Newbie: Sun Ultra 5 Disk Replacement
I have just started getting into unix and aquired a Sun Ultra 5 however the disk failed and I want to replace it with a spare maxtor 40Gb i have lying around. I need to partition and format the disk from its old windows format. I have looked up info on the format command in solaris 9 and I think i can partiotion the disk but i am not sure about formatting as it says the the format option within the format command only works with SCSI disks not IDE. can anyone help??? Smilie
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Old 06-30-2005
that's a small missunderstanding between the win-word format and the solaris-word format. windows say to the creation of a filesystem formating in unix it is called like what it does: make a new filesystem Smilie
take a look at:
man newfs

greetings PRESSY
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Old 06-30-2005
Thanks for the quick reply pressy and thanks for the grammer lesson. I will look man newfs up.

Many Thanks
kalm
 
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