I have my solaris in a partition on my hard drive the other partition which i want to use for backup, how do i format this partition for use as backup.
I know if i format with NTFS it will only work for windows and not solaris
as far as i know, fat16 is the only way to use a filesystem in solaris and windows...
whats the disk size? solaris OS version? system model? size of disks? How many of them? df -k output? output of vfstab file? partion table layout under format? pls provide all these.. easier for everyone to help you. not just by giving a summary.
Below is as requested by Incredible
disk size = 650gb
OS version = solaris 10 x86-64bit
1 disk with 3 partition ( for solaris , window xp, and for backup)
# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1d0s0 15141312 869019 14120880 6% /
/devices 0 0 0 0% /devices
ctfs 0 0 0 0% /system/contract
proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
swap 1514640 908 1513732 1% /etc/svc/volatile
objfs 0 0 0 0% /system/object
sharefs 0 0 0 0% /etc/dfs/sharetab
/dev/dsk/c1d0s6 4034061 2590171 1403550 65% /usr
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1
4034061 2590171 1403550 65% /lib/libc.so.1
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c1d0s4 4034061 1171975 2821746 30% /var
swap 1513808 76 1513732 1% /tmp
swap 1513756 24 1513732 1% /var/run
/dev/dsk/c1d0s5 76514035 65555 75683340 1% /u01
/dev/dsk/c1d0s7 151287721 829238 148945606 1% /export/home
# cat /etc/vfstab
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
#
fd - /dev/fd fd - no -
/proc - /proc proc - no -
/dev/dsk/c1d0s1 - - swap - no -
/dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0 / ufs 1 no -
/dev/dsk/c1d0s6 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s6 /usr ufs 1 no -
/dev/dsk/c1d0s4 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s4 /var ufs 1 no -
/dev/dsk/c1d0s7 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s7 /export/home ufs 2 yes -/dev/dsk/c1d0s5 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s5 /u01 ufs 2 yes -
/devices - /devices devfs - no -
ctfs - /system/contract ctfs - no -
objfs - /system/object objfs - no -
swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
sharefs - /etc/dfs/sharetab sharefs - no -
#
Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 IFS: NTFS 0 9560 9561 25
2 Active Solaris2 9561 25496 15936 41
3 IFS: NTFS 25497 28683 3187 8
SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
1. Create a partition
2. Specify the active partition
3. Delete a partition
4. Change between Solaris and Solaris2 Partition IDs
5. Exit (update disk configuration and exit)
6. Cancel (exit without updating disk configuration)
Enter Selection:
Is your 650G fully used up ( meaning, have you assigned the disk space to any of your current slices) ?
If yes, i've no idea how you're going to do it. Someone else might help.
If not, then did you try using option number 1 from the menu to create a new partition for your backup space?
my 650gb is not fully used up. i still have some unallocated spaces which i have not touched.
my window is 150gb
solaris is 250gb
other partition (NTFS formated) is 50gb
about 150gb is still unallocated
If i cannot use the 50gb (ntfs fornmated) is there a way i can use the unallocated
theoratically speaking, it can be done. So why dont you use the unallocated space then. Do that first and let us know the outcome;)