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# 1  
Old 10-16-2014
Disk creation

Hi

I have Solaris 10 (x86) m/c and I need additional disk to setup up Oracle Cluster. This is a test m/c.
When I do
Code:
 echo | format
Searching for disks...
Inquiry failed for this logical diskdone
 
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0d0 <▒x▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒@▒▒▒ cyl 19448 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci1166,36@1/pci-ide@e/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): Specify disk (enter its number):

Is there any way I can create additional disks or use the current one to make another disk.
I am not to familiar with this process so please excuse

Thanks

Last edited by rbatte1; 10-17-2014 at 08:10 AM.. Reason: Changed HTML to CODE tags
# 2  
Old 10-17-2014
Hello Rossdba,

The format command works with the physical disks in your server and directly cabled to your server or provided by a SAN (usually over fibre or iSCSI) but the OS sees all of these as just physical disks with appropriate size and characteristics.

I don't have a Solaris server any more, but can you do the following for us:-
  • Start the format command with no options or anything fed into it. It should put you in a menu.
  • Select disk zero (the only one you have)
  • Select option p for the partition menu
  • Select option p to print the table.
  • Paste this bit of output into the thread in CODE tags
  • Exit (q twice I think)
It would also be useful to have the output of df -k (again in CODE tags) so we can see what has been assigned to where.

If you have other filesystems that you mount as required, could you also post the content of /etc/fstab (or is it ufstab or vfstab) to make sure we don't risk overwriting something.



Thanks, in advance,
Robin
# 3  
Old 10-17-2014
Hi,

This looks like an old 160Gb IDE drive, there should be enough room on it - but you'll need to provide the information the Robin has asked for.

As to setting up Oracle Cluster, that could be much more of a challenge on a machine like this.

Regards

Dave
# 4  
Old 10-20-2014
Hi,

Here' the details that you have asked. This is indeed a old m/c and I need to test cluster here before using in production. Hence if I get the bare minimum ,it would work for me. Please provide me with the suggestion/solution. Thanks

HTML Code:
partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 19448 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
  0       root    wm       3 - 19447      148.96GB    (19445/0/0) 312383925
  1 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  2     backup    wm       0 - 19447      148.98GB    (19448/0/0) 312432120
  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 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  8       boot    wu       0 -     0        7.84MB    (1/0/0)         16065
  9 alternates    wu       1 -     2       15.69MB    (2/0/0)         32130
HTML Code:
# df -h
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
rpool/ROOT/s10x_u11wos_24a
                       146G    12G   107G    11%    /
/devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                    16G   984K    16G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
sharefs                  0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap2.so.1
                       120G    12G   107G    11%    /lib/libc.so.1
fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
rpool/ROOT/s10x_u11wos_24a/var
                       146G   195M   107G     1%    /var
swap                    16G    68K    16G     1%    /tmp
swap                    16G    32K    16G     1%    /var/run
rpool/export           146G    32K   107G     1%    /export
rpool/export/home      146G    13G   107G    12%    /export/home
rpool                  146G    42K   107G     1%    /rpool
HTML Code:
# less vfstab
#device         device          mount           FS      fsck    mount   mount
#to mount       to fsck         point           type    pass    at boot options
#
fd      -       /dev/fd fd      -       no      -
/proc   -       /proc   proc    -       no      -
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap        -       -       swap    -       no      -
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap1       -       -       swap    -       no      -
/devices        -       /devices        devfs   -       no      -
sharefs -       /etc/dfs/sharetab       sharefs -       no      -
ctfs    -       /system/contract        ctfs    -       no      -
objfs   -       /system/object  objfs   -       no      -
swap    -       /tmp    tmpfs   -       yes     -
 
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