How do I add additional drives?
First, you must have Solaris scan for the new drive.
Become root and type: "touch /reconfigure; /usr/sbin/reboot"
This rebuilds the /devices/ and /dev/ directories.
ATAPI and SCSI the drives are already low-level formatted. If you wish to
format a SCSI you can use /usr/sbin/format that comes with Solaris.
A second drive install would use format.
To create and use a filesystem:
- Select the disk
- /sbin/fdisk (select the whole disk or partial for format)
- Write the label with the "label" option partition, check the partition
arrangement
- Create a filesystem with /usr/sbin/newfs on the drive.
E.g. "newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0"
creates a filessystem on the the whole drive with SCSI ID 1.
- Create your mount point directory, if it doesn't exist.
For example, mkdir -p /local
- mount the partition on your favorite mount point directory.
For example,
mount /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s2 /local
mounts slice 2 of disk 0 of SCSI ID 1 of SCSI controller 0
at /local.
- Add a line to your /etc/vfstab file.
See the vfstab man page for details.
For example:
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 /local ufs 1 yes -
[Thanks to Bob Palowoda's FAQ and Sonny Leman]