[SunHELP] formatting disk
Steve Wingate
sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Oct 30 18:55:01 CST 2001
I'm trying to format a 2nd disk as one big partition on my SS20. The disk is /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s2, a disk on the internal bus. I followed some instructions and assigned slice 0 the full 6919 cylinders. Executing a print command within format showed as follows:
partition> print
Volume: content
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 6920 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 alternates wm 0 - 6917 4.24GB (6918/0/0) 8882712
1 swap wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wm 0 - 6919 4.24GB (6920/0/0) 8885280
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
After mounting the disk and executing df -k I noticed the 0 partition was showing as 100MB, not the full disk. Incidentally this is the size it was before I repartitioned the disk; this disk used to have Sol 8 on it. I went back into format and tried to redo the partitions pretty much the same way. For some reason I got the idea to use the format option to format and analyze the hard disk.
Now when when I try to mount the disk I get this:
# grep content /etc/vfstab
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 /content ufs 2 yes -
# mount /content
mount: /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 is not this fstype.
This is the same entry I was mounting the disk as successfully prior to repartitioning it the 2nd time. What do I have to do to put an fstype on this disk. There is nothing on it that needs to be saved. TIA.
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