Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V880 - Manual (Page 112)

Maintenance
112 Avaya CMS Sun Fire V880/V890 Installation, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting May 2006
Partitioning and formatting a disk
To partition and format a disk:
1. At the system prompt, enter:
format
A message that is 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, for example, c0t1d0, and the
Format Menu are displayed:
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0
/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w500000e010ad48e1,0
1. c1t1d0
/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w500000e010ad39f1,0
2. c1t3d0
/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000011c6469a7e,0
3. c1t4d0
/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/ssd@w21000011c659c9d0,0
Specify disk (enter its number):
Specify disk (enter its number): 1
selecting c1t1d0
[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
! - execute , then return
quit
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