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7.6

Using External USB drive - solaris 10

Asked by sdcox in Sun Solaris

Tags: Solais 10, mount filesystem

Hello gurus
I have installed a maxtor one touch external USB drive on my Solaris 10 system. I thought I had it worked out how to put a file system on it and mount it but I've run into an issue. Its probably a simple something I'm missing, so I hope you can help! I'll put my commands in double quotes for clarity.
Here's what I did:
1.) Plugged HD in, checked /var/adm/messages and made sure solaris detected it.
2.) checked "rmformat -l " and got:
         Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0
         Physical node: /pci@0,0/pci1022,7460@3/pcie11,3202@0,1/storage@3/disk@0,0
         Connected Device: Maxtor OneTouch 0125
         Device Type: Removable.
3.) then i did "fdisk -B /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0"
4.) then i figured out the sectors etc and got the size of the disk and then created a text file containing the line : slices: 0 = 0, 953843MB, "wm", "Backup"
5.) after that, did "rmformat -s text_file.txt /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0" then "devfsadm" and "devfsadm -C"
6.) then created the file system with : "newfs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0"

that all seemed to go fine, but now I'm trying to mount the darn thing and can't get it to work. I tried :
"mount -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 /backups "
and get mount point /backup does not exist. Thought, oh duh need to make a directory so then I tried:
"mkdir /backups", then "mount -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0 /backups "and got: mount: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 not a block device.
Tried "mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 /backups" and got: mount: /dev/dsk/c2t0d0p0 is not this fstype.
Now I'm stuck. I'd like to mount this disk as /backups so i can write large checkpoint files to it.

I would totally appreciate any assistance.



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