LUNS on Solaris 10

[ponetguy2]

Our storage team recently added new luns to a solaris 10 database server. i'm trying to label them, but there over 100 disk/luns on the server. is there an easy way to scan through all the disk, and find the disk/luns that are not labeled?

i'm suppose to carve veritas volumes out of these disk/luns. please help. i'd hate to go through all those disk/luns.

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[Annihilannic]

Perhaps for f in /dev/rdsk/*s2 ; do prtvtoc $f ; done > /tmp/prtvtocs and examine the output?

I don't have a Solaris box handy to test with.

Annihilannic.

 

[ponetguy2]

sweet. i'll try that.

i also tried 'format | echo | grep ^c' and that worked. i'll try the command string you gave me thank you again annihilannic. you've helped me once again.

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[opensrcrocks]

If your SAN team gave you a list of LUNs, they should have given you the target too or if it is fibre, you would have configured the target numbers.

if you have a list of disk names (newdisk.list), then it is easy to use the format command to label them or wipe them clean.

To label them, create a file (format.label) containing these lines:

p
p
l
q

No spaces or no new lines at the end or top.

for iii in `cat newdisk.list`
do
format -f format.label -d $iii
done >> /var/tmp/format.label.out

this will go and label all your disks for you.

-GGR