Disk partitioning in Solaris x86 1

[stantm1]

I'm running Solaris 8 on a Dell PowerEdge 2200 w/ a RAID controller. I've got 3 logical drives configured on the controller, but Solaris install only saw the 1st logical drive. How do I get Solaris to see the other two logical drives? Use fdisk? If so, can someone help me w/ the syntax? Below is a modified display from df :

/ (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0)
/usr (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6)
/var (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3)
/opt (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5)
/export/home (/dev/dsk/c1t0dos7)
/usr/openwin (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1)

Thanks much,

M

 

[cfsalmeida]

Try run "format" command, then from format prompt chose the number of one of the logical units you want to configure, if you try run i.e (verify), from where it should reply "Please run fdisk first", just type fdisk, you should get this:
No fdisk table exist.The default partition for the disk is:

a 100% "SOLARIS System" partition

Type "y" to accept the default partition, otherwise type "n" to edit partition table.

reply "y"
WARNING: Solaris fdisk partition changed - Please relabel the disk
you need run "label" to commit changes:
format> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

you can now run "verify", and "partition" if you want to change partitions sizes, then you can use newfs to create a ufs file system in your new disk partitions, i.e, if you new logical unit is at c1t1d0, then to create a file system in partition 0:
# newfs -m1 /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
then mount new file system with mount and don't forget to change "/etc/vfstab" if you want new file systems mounted at boot time.

Hope it helps,

Regards.

Carlos Almeida,

 

[stantm1]

Carlos,

Thanks for your response- your information was helpful. I was able to solve the problem on my own, however, by contacting Dell tech support for an updated Solaris x86 driver for the PERC II RAID card that I am using. (Yes, they actually had a Solaris x86 driver to give me!) Once I installed the new driver, typed "touch /reconfigure", and rebooted, Solaris finally recognized the other two logical drives on the RAID card. I was then able to continue w/ directions similar to those you provided.

Thanks again,

Mike