Re: Does solaris require disks to be zeroed before using
From: Chris Newport (me_at_see-my-sig.invalid)
Date: 09/25/04
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:52:14 +0100
On Thursday 23 September 2004 4:10 am in comp.sys.sun.admin David A.Lethe
<davidATsantools.com> wrote:
> This is causing some issues at our company, and we can't get any
> definitive answers. Is there any requirement, or even best-practices
> policies that SCSI and/or fibre channel disk drives need to have all
> zeros written to them before partitioning and building a file system
> on them?
The only case where Solaris needs a disk to be zeroed is
where an IDE disk has been installed on a system/OS version
which does not support large drives. In this case only the
boot block needs to be zeroed.
This was a common issue with the Ultra5/10 when a user installed
a large disk which was not correctly recognised.
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