Wrong new drive size

[mikes999]

I am adding a new ISA HD to a 5.7 x86 system; after all formatting and partitioning, the drive appears to be no more than 576MB, although I am sure it's size 2.1GB. The box is Proliant-100.

Any suggestions/comments are highly appreciated.

NOTE: my Solaris skills are fairly rudimentary, so I did follow the book to the t. Any pointing to other sources besides Sun website will be helpful.

 

[ianf]

Hi Mikes999,

Where is it showing the disk size as 576Mb ? Within Solaris ?
Are all the filesystems that you created, when you formatted and partitioned, mounted ? /etc/vfstab shows what you are trying to mount & /etc/mnttab shows what is actually mounted.
Did you mkfs on all the filesystems (partitions) ?

As to info

http://docs.sun.com

is where the books/manuals are (as you know already), otherwise the man pages on the box it's self.

Ian

"IF" is not a word it's a way of life

 

[mikes999]

Hi, ianf,

The size of 576MB shows in the solaris, in df (in blocks) and in the format-partition; when I am trying to create a partition beyond certain size, it gives a size error, in short, total sum of partitions' space is about 576M, rather than 2G. I didn't mount anything, apparently, since I hadn't create them yet.

Speking of man pages (glad YOU mentioned that!) - I don't have any. I was installing Solaris by default, but, either because of the insufficient space, or for whatever reason, it didn't install them. How can I "insert" the man reference into the system ( the command "man" works, but answers: No man pages available for "command" command. I tryed it on about anything - ls, df, mkdir, etc.

Thanks again,

M.S.

 

[ianf]

So Mikes999,

you typed format as root to see your disk ? and you see the available disks ? and their raw sizes ?
I'm afraid I'm speaking from Solaris on Sun experience, so things may be a little different on x86.

Format is about as raw as you can get from within the OS, but be careful it will wipe your disk if you tell it to.

Disk Doc;

http://docs.sun.com/ab2/@LegacyPage...b_28_12/HANDBOOK/02.Setting_Up_a_Disk_Drive#8

Man pages install the same as any other Sol packge. If you have the CD, locate the man pages, I think they are called SUNWsman or something similar (there should be at least 2 volumes). As root
#./install path_to_/SUNWsman
It should "talk" you through the rest

Man pages are not the same as the answerbook, which is the GUI available from CDE. Man pages are turgid & unreadable unless you need to know how to do what with a command, then they become turgid & unreadable but invaluable too. Ian

"IF" is not a word it's a way of life