Adding Not-Quite-New Disk in OpenIndiana

Subject16 · 04-16-2014, 12:01 PM

Hi,

I'm asking this here because my understanding is that OpenIndiana and OpenSolaris are related enough that OpenSolaris commands/philosophy will translate.

I have a server with 3 disks, in a zfs mirror root pool. I am working on replacing them one by one to increase the available disk space. My plan is to install a "new" disk and do zfs replace, one by one. However, the only disks I have to use are leftovers from downed servers so they have already been formatted/used in CentOS systems. I think this is why when I insert the disk and cfgadm -l, I don't see it.

Code:

Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
sata0/0::dsk/c3t0d0            disk         connected    configured   ok
sata0/1::dsk/c3t1d0            disk         connected    configured   ok
sata0/2::dsk/c3t2d0            disk         connected    configured   ok
sata0/3                        disk         connected    unconfigured unknown

sata0/3 is where the "new" disk is. I have searched online and can find no clue as to how to empty this drive or do whatever I need to do to have it show up as c3t3d0. I checked /dev/dsk/ and it doesn't show up there. I can't even dd because I have no device name. Can anyone provide guidance as to what I need to do?

smallpond · 04-16-2014, 02:01 PM

You need to format and partition the disk using the Solaris fdisk utility.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/...ksxadd-50.html

jlliagre · 04-16-2014, 02:16 PM

I doubt the fact the disk was previously used by Centos has any impact.

As the disk is in unconfigured state, I would start with:

Code:

cfgadm -c configure sata0/3