Hey i have a new USB 320GB harddrive i want to use in my Solaris 10 enviroment.
i first had the drive format in windows with FAT32,
Solaris was able to auto mount this drive and everything was fine, until i realised that it would not except files greater then 4gb, due to the limitations of FAT32.
so my plan is to format the drive and create a partition with UFS.
when i try to format the drive with rmformat i get an error
LONG
-bash-3.00# rmformat -F long /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0p0
Formatting will erase all the data on disk.
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y
Format failed : I/O error
QUICK
-bash-3.00# rmformat -F quick /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0p0
Formatting will erase all the data on disk.
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y
Format failed : Operation not supported
Forget about formatting which isn't what you are looking for anyway (fdisk, fmthard and newfs) and forget also about ufs which is showing its age. Simply run
@incredible: you misread the question. The OP wants to use a file system that allows files larger than 4 GB. Staying with pcfs as you seems to suggest isn't going to help. OTOH, the link you posted shows how to create an UFS filesystem on the disk but why going the complex way while ZFS is so simple to set up yet having much more features ?