mirror with different disk size

Hi all

a newbe question regarding Sun-Blade-150 with solaris 8:

I have to mirror with SDS my existing disk that is a Western Digital

WD400BB (40.0GB - 7200 RPM Ultra

ATA/100).

my supplier told me that disk is no more avaiable and proposed me to

buy a 80.0GB disk of the same model.

If i buy th 80.0GB disk, could be possible to copy vtoc

prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2

and make a mirror with SDS ?

It's not a matter if I'll lose 40GB of new disk.

Really thank you

Maniu

[581 byte] By [manu.ita] at [2007-11-27 10:15:28]

# 1

hi maniu

solstice is a good (and affordable) choice.

the gross-capacity of the disk is secondary, but you will loose this 40 gb.

the partition/slices must have the right capacity !

one correction, if i may:<<fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 >> ;-)

take the drive, run format and rewrite it with a sun disklabel.

go on with this howto -->http://www.geocities.com/arndike/sds_howto.html

it describes very good the mirroring of a hard drive under 5.8

hth,jenny

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Jenny_Sa at 2007-7-28 15:39:42 >

# 2

really thank you jenny :-)

manu.ita at 2007-7-28 15:39:42 >

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