I would like to know how to make new partitions....
I currently have allocated 60G for various slices (I have totally used 4 out of 7 available slices...
I am running only solaris on my box.
My plan is to have entire disk dedicated to solaris and run other OS from within solaris(virtualbox)....if the need ever arises,that is!!!
This is the first time and attempting this ,so could you please help me out
it's not clear what you want to do with your disk? but for make new partitions you need "format". but if your disk is full, you need a new disk... so, a little more info will be usefull!
if you've used up all 60GB then what's the remaining.? u using a 73GB disk? at the most u can assign another 8GB of space to another partition. 6 and 7 umight not be using since no space left.
Yes u will use format utility to specify ur cylinder size
I have a 250G Hd,
i had windows installed which occupied some 10G, but i dont have it anymore...
Earlier i had installed solaris and i thought i might use windows, so only allocated 60G for it...
But now i feel i can run windows on Virtualbox , so i am planning on formatting the remaining part of my HD and use it for solaris itself....
Could you now tell me how i need to go about it....
PS:windows is no more existing on my system, id rather have it on Vbox
then no issues,
just continue to create slice 4 5 6 and 7 , resize the partiton as needed. since u have not instALLED THE OS YET, u can re-format the whole drive (starting from cylinder 0 onwards), and so on.
eg
Part tag flag cylinders size
0 root wm 0 - 12 129.19MB
1 swap wu 13 - 25 129.19MB
2 backup wu 0 - 14086 136.71GB
3 unassigned wm 0 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0
6 usr wm 26 - 14086 136.36GB
7 unassigned wm 0 0
The drive is already formatted. Just change the partitions using the format command -> par -> select slice -> label the disk and you are done.
Remember - partition 2 is the whole disk, don't change this partition!!
Just to be on the safer side, i have pasted my partition table, pls have a look at it and tell me how i need to proceed.....I dont want to screw up my system as i have data that will be too costly for me,if i lose it and its too huge for a backup!!!!
Im confused again. By looking at the partition table, only 58G is available but you said you're using a 250G disk And your root slice cylinder starts at 3 instead od 0 ? why?
Im confused again. By looking at the partition table, only 58G is available but you said you're using a 250G disk And your root slice cylinder starts at 3 instead od 0 ? why?
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That is correct...
I have a 250G hard disk ,not a 250g partition for solaris...
Out of this 250g , i have 60g for solaris the rest is unaccounted for, or should i say unformatted!!!!
This is the reason why its showing 58G and i guess you got the ans for your confusion from the previous post itself...
PS:i am no expert in formatting the disk in solaris, so i have little idea thats all...
I need assistance!
Hi Wrapster, abit of prob here. I have ot done this before except for performing "growfs" , that is u can grow the filesystem size using SVM. But in your case, you might need to re-format your disk(meaning all your data will be lost). your disk is labelled as 60GB already. If you wanna to utilise the full space, you will need to do repartitioning from the beginning. No shortcut I guess.
You should have a device corresponding to the full root disk, not the fdisk partition in it. I don't have a machine to hand to check the device name format, but will post back in a couple of hours.
ok, you should have a device with almost the same name as you root disk, but ending in p0. eg c0t0d0p0 or maybe c0t0p0 (if you have an IDE drive), thats the one you want.
In my case I only have one partition on the disk using the whole disk
Total disk size is 8924 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Active Solaris2 1 8924 8924 100
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:
Type 1 to create a partition
Choose Solaris2 as the partition type
Then specify what % of the disk you want to use
Select 5 to write the changes to the disk
It is probably best to reboot the system after this to ensure that the disk state is saved and stable.
After reboot:
devfsadm -v
Then you can use format to create one ore more new slices.
Then newfs the slices and you should be ready to mount and use them.