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Using External USB drive - solaris 10

Asked by: sdcox

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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2009-03-11 at 16:07:09ID24221982
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by: yuzhPosted on 2009-03-11 at 16:33:59ID: 23863442

Please have a look at the following link:

http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/usb/USB-Faq.html

and

the answer in http:Q_22106560.html

 

by: bluPosted on 2009-03-12 at 04:51:41ID: 23867114

Since you are running Solaris 10, you should consider using ZFS on the disk instead of UFS.  ZFS is much simpler to administrate, is more efficient, allows you to take snapshots, and a bunch of other things, and works very well removable drives.

 

by: arthurjbPosted on 2009-03-19 at 12:36:20ID: 23933187

And probably not the political correct answer, but you might want to think about preparing the drive on a windows system, and then plugging it into the Solaris box.

Solaris will read and write windows usb drives and thumb drives...

Good Luck!

 

by: sdcoxPosted on 2009-09-23 at 07:40:42ID: 25403607

The person who asked this question has left the company.  Not sure which solution is the one.  

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