How to check free disks in solaris 1

[subirp]

Inherited a sun solaris e450 server(sol 8). How can I tell which disks are associated with f/s. So in order to find a spare disk, i do not use the one with data already on them ?

 

[jimbopalmer]

df -k should show what mount points exist and what disk partitions are associated with those mount points (if this is running a database you may need to find out what raw partitions the data base knows about)

Usuing the format command, you can print what disks and partitions exist.

a comparison of df -k and format and your knowledge of raw partitions should show any free space

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[Annihilannic]

I use this script to display disks areas that are not allocated to partitions:

[tt]cd /dev/rdsk
for d in *2
do
prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/$d
done | nawk '
/\* \/dev/
/Unallocated/,/\*$/
'[/tt]

Is it using any volume management software (Veritas Volume Manager or DiskSuite)? You can tell from df -k if any of the raw devices contain /dev/vx or /dev/md

Annihilannic.

 

[art15t]

off the top of my head you can do:

prtvtoc -f -s /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s2

this will tell you what's free(-f)

ART