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format solaris server

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ssaachi

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Sep 24, 2001
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Have a Sun V880 that needs to be decommissioned and I need ot format it.
What is the quickest way to do it.
Thanks
Saachi
 
Hmm... perhaps dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dsk/cNtNdNs2 for each disk?

And you could junk the partition tables as well by setting one on the first disk. Then use prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/cNtNdNs2 > /tmp/vtoc to save that layout in a file, and then fmthard -s /tmp/vtoc /dev/rdsk/cNtNdNs2 on all the other disks to copy it to the other disks. Annihilannic.
 
Can I do a
boot cdrom
and then format each of the drives.
 
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