Sun Microsystems V880, V890 manual Setting up the disk drives, Partitioning disk drives

Maintaining disk drives

Setting up the disk drives

After you replace defective disk drives, do one of the following, depending on drives replaced:

Drives replaced	Procedure
One boot disk	Partition the new boot disk drive (see Partitioning disk drives on
	page 109). Continue with the procedures in "Recovering a mirrored
	system after disk failure" in the maintenance chapter of the CMS
	software installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting document for
	your CMS release.
Both boot disks	Continue with the procedures in "Performing a CMSADM restore of a
	mirrored or non-mirrored system" in the maintenance chapter of the
	CMS software installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting
	document for your CMS release.
Data disks	Partition and administer the drive so that it works with the existing
	disk drives (see Partitioning disk drives on page 109). Continue with
	the procedures in "Recovering a mirrored system after disk failure" in
	the maintenance chapter of the CMS software installation,
	maintenance, and troubleshooting document for your CMS release.

Partitioning disk drives

If you are replacing a defective data disk drive in a system and CMS is not operational, or if you are replacing a single defective boot disk (primary or mirror), you must manually partition the disk drive. Use the following information:

●Disk partition values, Boot disks on page 110 or Data disks on page 111.

●Partitioning and formatting a disk on page 112.

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