[indiana-discuss] A Couple of Newbie Questions

[Kevin Monceaux]

Indiana Fans,

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote:

> Anyway, after reinstalling, updating SUNWipkg and entire, followed by an 
> image-update and reboot, I created a second partition, with a type of 
> other, on my first drive using the remaining space, which is just over 
> 90GB.  Would that partition be called c5d0p1?  I tried adding c5d0p1 to 
> the pool I had created on my second drive and it worked but only added 
> about 25GB to the pool.  I'm missing about 65GB somewhere.

The root of my problem has just become clear.  I apparently got the 
partition notation wrong.  I'm at work right now connected to my desktop 
PC via ssh, so I can't really dig too far into the problem right now.  I 
started getting bus error core dumped errors.  Checking my root pool's 
status it shows it to be degraded with too many errors.  I should have 
realized this earlier, but it took this to make it sink in.  The amount of 
space that got added to my non-root pool when I added c5d0p1 is equal to 
the size of the first partition on drive c5d0, which contains my root 
pool's slice.  I thought the partitions were numbered from zero and c5d0p1 
would be the second, type other, partition, that I created.  Humm, my 
technique might have worked if I had gotten the partition numbers right.
Oh well, live and learn.  It looks like I'm destined for a reinstall when 
I get home.  Based on the comments I've gotten I might give SXCE a try for 
now.


Kevin
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