how to mount external hard disk on Solaris 10 x86?
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From: Michelle on 17 Apr 2008 17:56 On Mar 26, 12:40 pm, Reginald Beardsley <pulask...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - > Michelle wrote: > > On Mar 24, 5:11 pm, Michelle <serendipity1...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >>I went out and got those 1/2 Terabyteexternalharddrives from both > >>Maxtor and Seagate. When I plugged in its USB cable onto my Solaris > >>10 x86 server, it tries to format theharddrive. But that's it. I > >>can't mount either drive because the format doesn't even run. > >>Is that anexternalharddrive system that is around 250 GB to 1 > >>Terabyte that works with Solaris 10? Thanks. > > So I must have done something wrong. Can someone post the > > instructions on how to format an > >externalUSBharddrive on Solaris x86, and then, mounting it after > > the format is completed? > > Currently, whenever I plug in the USB cable, Solaris 10 wants to > > format the drive, and then, > > it just gets stuck there. Thanks. > Here's a brief summary of my notes from setting up 400 & 750 GB Seagate > drives w/ ufs. Setting up pcfs is similar: > 0) disable vold & reboot > mv /etc/vold.conf /etc/vold.conf_disabled > init 6 > 1) plug in the drive and get the drive designation > rmformat -l > 2) clear the old MS cruft > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/???? bs=2048 count=10 > Note: I don't think this was really necessary. > My notes don't say why I did it. > Probably just habit. > 2) get the number of sectors & create primary partition > fdisk /dev/rdsk/???? > 3) format the drive w/ newfs > newfs -v [your choice of options] -s number_of_sectors /dev/rdsk/???? > Thehardpart was figuring out I needed to give the "-s #_sectors" option. > you'll get a message from newfs that the drive returns a size of zero, > but a seek to the specified size succeeds so it is using the size you > gave it. I've encountered the same message everytime I've formatted a > USB drive. I assume it's a error in the USB mass storage driver failing > to propagate the information properly. > 4) mount -F ufs [your mount options] /dev/dsk/???? /mnt > Have Fun! > Reg- Hide quoted text - > - Show quoted text - This is what I've done: # rmformat -l Looking for devices... 1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0 Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide(a)14,1/ide@0/sd@0,0 Connected Device: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A 1.75 Device Type: DVD Reader/Writer 2. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci1043,81ef(a)13,5/storage@2/disk@0,0 Connected Device: Maxtor OneTouch 0121 Device Type: Removable # fdisk /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 Total disk size is 60800 cylinders Cylinder size is 32130 (512 byte) blocks Cylinders Partition Status Type Start End Length % ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== === 1 Active Solaris2 1 60799 60799 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: 6 # So now, what do I type in for the "newfs" command? I don't know what the number of sectors is. By the way, does the newfs command format the external hard disk? Then after the "newfs" command, can I do this command: # mount -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 /mnt
From: Ian Collins on 17 Apr 2008 18:00 Michelle wrote: > > > So now, what do I type in for the "newfs" command? > I don't know what the number of sectors is. > By the way, does the newfs command format the external hard disk? > > > Then after the "newfs" command, can I do this command: > > > # mount -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 /mnt > > Why don't you just create a ZFS pool on the drive? -- Ian Collins.
From: ITguy on 17 Apr 2008 23:34 > 2. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 > Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci1043,81ef(a)13,5/storage@2/disk@0,0 > Connected Device: Maxtor OneTouch 0121 > Device Type: Removable > > # fdisk /dev/rdsk/scconf -c -D name=dg1, syncp0 > > Total disk size is 60800 cylinders > Cylinder size is 32130 (512 byte) blocks > > Cylinders > Partition Status Type Start End Length % > ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== === > 1 Active Solaris2 1 60799 60799 > 100 > From your rmformat and fdisk commands, it looks like the disk is partitioned correctly for Solaris. > So now, what do I type in for the "newfs" command? > I don't know what the number of sectors is. > By the way, does the newfs command format the external hard disk? You have an fdisk partition, but you still need to format the disk to create slices. I don't believe you can run "newfs" against an fdisk slice. # format c2t0d0 <create slice(s)> # newfs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s(X) # mount -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s(X) /mnt Or, just use ZFS # zpool create <pool-name> c2t0d0
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