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>  Hello,

> We have never used DiskSuite here, but I feel it would help in several
> of processes, so I'm trying to learn it by playing around and off of
> docs.sun.com .

> I was able to perform a concatenation of two partitions with no
> problem, and mounted it successfully.  However, I'm having a problem
> when I try to stripe two partitions together.

> Here's the situation (Solaris 2.5.1 and DiskSuite 4.0).  I've got two
> partitions at 200mb each, on two different disks.  I added the
> following to /etc/opt/SUNWmd/md.tab:
>      d2 1 2 /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s3 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s3 -i 16K
>  (I know that's the default, but it helps me to remember in case I ever
> want anything different).

> Then I did a metainit on d2.  Everything was fine.  However, when I
> mount it, I get the following line in df -k
>      Filesystem      kbytes  used        avail        capacity  MntPt
>      /dev/md/dsk/d2  191983  3175650412  11194896777  1837836%  /foo

> If I do an fstyp it comes up as UFS, same as the concatenation.

> However, when I do a file, it comes up with:
>      /foo     cannot read: I/O error
> (the concatenation reports directory).

> I cannot write in /foo, obviously.  Am I missing something here?

> Thanks for any help you can give.  I really appreciate it.

> By the way, I've seen in the past there's problems with DiskSuite 4.0,
> but that's what came with my OS, so I believe that's what I'm stuck
> with.

> --
> Gregg Yurchak
> UNIX SysAd
> (Always looking for a job in Biloxi)

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> John

> >  Hello,

> > We have never used DiskSuite here, but I feel it would help in
several
> > of processes, so I'm trying to learn it by playing around and off of
> > docs.sun.com .

> > I was able to perform a concatenation of two partitions with no
> > problem, and mounted it successfully.  However, I'm having a problem
> > when I try to stripe two partitions together.

> > Here's the situation (Solaris 2.5.1 and DiskSuite 4.0).  I've got
two
> > partitions at 200mb each, on two different disks.  I added the
> > following to /etc/opt/SUNWmd/md.tab:
> >      d2 1 2 /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s3 /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s3 -i 16K
> >  (I know that's the default, but it helps me to remember in case I
ever
> > want anything different).

> > Then I did a metainit on d2.  Everything was fine.  However, when I
> > mount it, I get the following line in df -k
> >      Filesystem      kbytes  used        avail        capacity
MntPt
> >      /dev/md/dsk/d2  191983  3175650412  11194896777  1837836%  /foo

> > If I do an fstyp it comes up as UFS, same as the concatenation.

> > However, when I do a file, it comes up with:
> >      /foo     cannot read: I/O error
> > (the concatenation reports directory).

> > I cannot write in /foo, obviously.  Am I missing something here?

> > Thanks for any help you can give.  I really appreciate it.

> > By the way, I've seen in the past there's problems with DiskSuite
4.0,
> > but that's what came with my OS, so I believe that's what I'm stuck
> > with.

> > --
> > Gregg Yurchak
> > UNIX SysAd
> > (Always looking for a job in Biloxi)

> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.