Filter
Top Products
Maintaining disk drives
Issue 3.3 February 2003 117
Partitioning and formatting a disk
To partition and format a disk:
1. At the system prompt, enter:
format
A message similar to the following example is displayed:
2. Enter the disk number that corresponds to the disk that you added. Be sure to specify
the number that exactly matches the disk added.
The device number of the disk that you are partitioning is displayed, for example,
c0t1d0, and the Format Menu is displayed:
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <ST320420A cyl 39533 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0
1. c0t1d0 <ST320420A cyl 39533 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0
2. c1t0d0 <SUN4.2G cyl 3880 alt 2 hd 16 sec 135>
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@2/sd@0,0
3. c1t1d0 <SUN9.0G cyl 4924 alt 2 hd 27 sec 133>
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@2/sd@1,0
Specify disk (enter its number):
Specify disk (enter its number): 1
selecting c0t1d0
[disk formatted]
FORMAT MENU:
disk - select a disk
type - select (define) a disk type
partition - select (define) a partition table
current - describe the current disk
format - format and analyze the disk
repair - repair a defective sector
label - write label to the disk
analyze - surface analysis
defect - defect list management
backup - search for backup labels
verify - read and display labels
save - save new disk/partition definitions
inquiry - show vendor, product and revision
volname - set 8-character volume name
!<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return
quit
format>