[SunHELP] formatting disk

[Martin Marshall]

Steve:

Did you newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0

then mount the drive?

Martin


Steve Wingate wrote:
> 
> Yes, I did. Whether I did it correctly remains to be seen.
> 

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> > > After mounting the disk and executing df -k I noticed the 0 partition was showing as 100MB, not the full disk. Incidentally this is the size it was before I repartitioned the disk; this disk used to have Sol 8 on it. I went back into format and tried to
> >  redo the partitions pretty much the same way. For some reason I got the idea to use the format option to format and analyze the hard disk.
> > > Now when when I try to mount the disk I get this:
> > >
> > > # grep content /etc/vfstab
> > > /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0       /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0      /content        ufs     2       yes     -
> > > # mount /content
> > > mount: /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 is not this fstype.
> > >
> > > This is the same entry I was mounting the disk as successfully prior to repartitioning it the 2nd time. What do I have to do to put an fstype on this disk. There is nothing on it that needs to be saved. TIA.
> > >
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