server has no slice 2, can I safely create it?
- From: "Brewer, Dwight R. CONTRACTOR" <Dwight.Brewer_CONTRACTOR@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:41:06 -0400
We just finished building a trusted solaris server and customizing it.
I was about to use dd to copy the entire drive to a backup that will
normally be stored off line. However, due to a huge oversight, the
person who created our working drive deleted slice 2, the backup
partition before the build started. The other partitions / /usr /var
and /opt are fine and the system is running without error.
What would normally be slice 2 is unassigned and empty, utilizing no
cylinders. So the following command fails:
dd ifs=/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 ofs=/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 bs=10240
Due to circumstances beyond my control, starting the build over is not
an option.
I do have ufs dumps to tape of the / /usr /var and /opt filesystems.
My question is: Can I safely use the format utility to re-create a
standard slice 2 by reassigning it the full range of available
cylinders? Or will that harm the data on the existing partitions?
Should I forget a slice 2 reconstruction and instead use ufsrestore to
rebuild the system?
All suggestions welcome! Thanks in advance.
Russ
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