Need help with File system creation for Oracel DB installation
Hello
I am new to Solaris/Unix system landscape. I have a Sun enterprise 450 with 18GB hard drive. It has Solaris 9 on it and no other software at this time. I am planning on adding 2 more hard drives 18gb and 36gb to accommodate Oracle DB.
Recently I went through the Solaris Intermediate Sys admin training, knows the basic stuff but not fully confident to carry out the task on my own.
I would appreciate some one can help me with the sequence of steps that I need perform to
1. recognize the new hard drives in the system,
2. format,
3. partition. What is the normal strategy for partitioning? My current thinking is to have 36+18gb drives as data drives. This is where I am little bit lost. Can I make a entire 36GB drive as 1 slice for data, I am not quite sure how this is done in the real life, need your help.
4. creating the file system to store the database files.
Any help would be appreciated.
[973 byte] By [
sapsteve] at [2007-11-25 23:36:47]
# 1
Any luck yet?
1. HDD install. The simplest way is to power down the server and install the new drives. Power up. At the ok> prompt enter the command "probe-scsi-all". The system will then look at all attached scsi devices and report on what it finds. you should see your new devices. Then type "boot -r" to boot the system and reconfigure the devices.
2. Formatting the disks can be done by using the newfs command, I'm going off the top of my head ut it's something like "# newfs -f ufs /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s?"
Be careful you don't blow away your primary disk by mistake (which is most likely c0t0d0s0). To find the address of your new disks use the "format" command.
3. Yep, you can make one partition (or filesystem) that uses the entire disk if you like. The advantage is that you can use all the available space, the downside is that you only need one filesystem to fail to take out the entire disk. If your not building an OS disk then it doesn't really matter how you set up the slices for these new disks. You can set this up again using the "format" command and selecting the "partition" option.
