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APHRODITE007
03-23-2001, 06:16 AM
HI
I hope someone can help me with this ..
i have a sun sparc 5 box running solaris 8 it is setup correctly but we need extra harddrive space
we added a shoebox with a2 gig drive
which was detected when did boot -r
however that is where i am stuck!
how do i get it to be seen as /data2 etc????
2nd question, for some reason the box also indicates it has two swap partitions 1 mounted on /tmp
this has nothing to do with first problem !!!
thanks

rppp01
03-23-2001, 09:44 AM
Assuming you set up the hard drive correctly (setting the scsi ID and terminating the scsi chain) then, you should be able to type format and see the drive. It has been a little while since I have used format, but you basically choose that disk, partition it, and then you format the partitions by using 'newfs'. This takes a little time.
At that point, you can mount the thing.
If you want it to stick on reboot, add it to the /etc/vfstab.

For more info, go to http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.47.8/SYSADV1/@Ab2PageView/idmatch(DISKSSADD-16103)?DwebQuery=newfs&oqt=newfs&Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1#DISKSSADD-16103

Hope this helps.