Can't mount partition after flash create

Hey guys and gals,

I think I really my have screwed the pooch on this one, :-) Yesterday I was experimenting with creating a flash archive for disaster recovery purposes and not having a tape drive connected to the box i simply unmounted the partition where /export/home was mounted and told the archive to write there. well, needless to say, i can no longer mount that partition with /export/home. I do however have all the info backed up and can restore it, but the OS won't even let me mount that partition at all now. I get back an error saying that the disk is not a block device. Is there any way that I can simply format that one partition so I can remount it, I don't care about the flash archive that resides there, however I don't want to repartion/relabel the entire drive because there are other partitions that have data and some other uncooked space that is being used by Oracle.

Thanks for any info,

ci

[996 byte] By [AU_Chad] at [2007-11-25 22:33:25]
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Have you recreated the ufs filesystem on your partition? I'm not sure what the flash achive did to your partition, but the 'not block device' is telling you that there is no valid filesystem to mount.1) Rebuild your filesystem with 'newfs raw-device'. 2) remount the filesystem (block-device) on the /export/home mount point 3) recover your data and... 4) create a filesystem called /flar on another partition and use that to write to next time.Hope this helps. Paul M.

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