How to format and mount new partition?

[JazzGeek]

Guru's ~

I have a machine that has an extra 150 GIG's on a RAID 5. The main, root parition is already formatted and Solaris 10 is installed. However, I now want to format the 150 GIG's and mount it for a new database to be installed.

Can someone please explain how this is done? I have looked for documentation on the process, but strangly, I have been unable to find it.

Thank you in advance!

SJ

Sebastian Jazzer
MCSE 4.0 & 2000, Network+, A+, Web Developer

 

[spamly]

Assuming the drives are already discovered on the system:

format (This command will partition up the drive)
newfs (This command will create a filesystem on the partition that you just created)
/etc/vfstab (This file tells the system what to mount and when to mount it)

Try a "man" on each of those.

Good luck!

 

[JazzGeek]

Thanks. I'm trying not to format my existing, working hard drive.

How can I tell what is the difference between my current workign hard drive, and my new RAID 5 hard drive (that needs formatting)?

thanks again

Sebastian Jazzer
MCSE 4.0 & 2000, Network+, A+, Web Developer

 

[KenCunningham]

Sebastian, how are you planning to set up the RAID 5 - using Solaris Volume Manager or some other tool? Your /etc/vfttab file should tell you which disk/slice root (/) is mounted on, together with others like /var (if separate from /) etc.

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[JazzGeek]

Ken

The raid 5 is already setup on the DELL machine via the hardware. I was trying to make the Solaris see it and then allow me to format and mount it.

However, I don't know how to tell what is the raw phyiscal drive on Solaris and/or how to make Solaris see it.

ANy ideas?

Thank you ahead of time!

Sebastian Jazzer
MCSE 4.0 & 2000, Network+, A+, Web Developer