SUMMARY: Labeling a new solaris disk

Hello Sunmanagers,

Thanks for all who repsonded, Below is the few which i
would like to quote, Spl Thanks to Elliot, Don,Darren
and Simon.

------------Responses which helped-------------------

Elliot Moore" <elliot@devnull.org.uk 

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/label_multi_disks.jsp
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/format_utility.html
_____________________________________________________________________
Don Ratliff" <ddratliff@yahoo.com> 

I've used this in the past, where you have to fill in
your own 'c' and 't' numbers in the for loops below.
or you could do it manually without the for loops

Don

---------------------------------------------------

this will label all the drives

#!/bin/sh
for c in 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15;
do

for t in 0 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 ; do
        format -s -f fmtcf c$c"t"$t"d0"
done
done

where ftmcf is a command file ( see man page for
format )
with the word "label" ( without the quotes ) in it

_____________________________________________________________________
Darren Dunham" <ddunham@taos.com

The format command assumes 'yes' answer to questions
when run in
non-interactive mode.

It also asks to format when a non-labeled disk is
selected.

So the easiest way is to create a command file like
this:

disk 1
disk 2
disk 3
disk 4
[...]

and feed that to format with -f.  Each disk in the
list will be
selected, and only if it is unlabeled, it will have a
new label
attached. 
_____________________________________________________________________
Simon" <simon.zcyuan@gmail.com

for disk in `ls /dev/dsk/c#s2|awk -F\/ '{print $NF}'`
(replace "#" with
 the
actual controller instance number)
do
    format $disk <<eof >/dev/null 2>&1
    type
    0
    label
    yes
    quit
eof
done

.
Regards,
-Sunny.


       
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