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use format to repartition the disks. format is menu driven and easy to use.
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use format to repartition the disks. format is menu driven and easy to use.

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Assuming this is not your boot disk you're talking about, you can use the format command.<br />
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<a href="http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisoq2l?a=view" rel="ugc">http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisoq2l?a=view</a><br />
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Be aware that you will loose all data on these disks, so make sure you've got a good backup.<br />
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Assuming this is not your boot disk you're talking about, you can use the format command.

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisoq2l?a=view [http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisoq2l?a=view]

Be aware that you will loose all data on these disks, so make sure you've got a good backup.



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type: format<br />
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type the number of the physical drive:<br />
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type: p<br />
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type: p<br />
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the look of what slices you have<br />
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type: q<br />
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check the command that deletes a slice and so on . .<br />
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type: format

type the number of the physical drive:

type: p

type: p

the look of what slices you have

type: q

check the command that deletes a slice and so on . .



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Hi everyone,<br />
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I have a Sun Fire V245 running Solaris 10 with 4 x 73Gb drives. &nbsp;I have partitioned 3 of the drives with 1 single big partition. &nbsp;However, I would like to change my partitioning totally on these 3 drives. &nbsp;However, i cant seem to setup partitioning again through Solaris Management Console and I cant find a way to remove the current partitioning.<br />
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Is there someone out there who might be able to hep me out? &nbsp;I just need to delete the current setup so i can re-partition the 3 drives again (im sure its probably a really simple fix, its just i am a Solaris virgin!)
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Hi everyone,

I have a Sun Fire V245 running Solaris 10 with 4 x 73Gb drives.  I have partitioned 3 of the drives with 1 single big partition.  However, I would like to change my partitioning totally on these 3 drives.  However, i cant seem to setup partitioning again through Solaris Management Console and I cant find a way to remove the current partitioning.

Is there someone out there who might be able to hep me out?  I just need to delete the current setup so i can re-partition the 3 drives again (im sure its probably a really simple fix, its just i am a Solaris virgin!)

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