Automating Drive Formatting
Michael Collette
Michael.Collette at TestEquity.com
Wed Nov 23 18:06:41 GMT 2005
I'm looking for some way to script together an automatic formatting of a hard
drive. Having a fair amount of difficulty locating some good information on
doing this.
For example, let's say there's an unknown IDE drive that's at least 40G in
size. On that drive I want to create 1 partition with 3 labels. 2 of the
labels get 10G, and the 3rd gets whatever is left.
My reason for doing this is that we've set up a couple of servers that are
running diskless, but are bogging down a bit with getting everything via NFS.
I'm trying to get a diskless box note the installed drive, check to see if
it's in the format I expect, and if not perform the bsdlabel, newfs, and all
that.
I know the basic info is somewhere accessible, or sysinstall wouldn't have
this stuff available. Just need a shove in the right direction please.
Thanks,
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Michael Collette
IT Manager
TestEquity Inc
Michael.Collette at TestEquity.com
http://www.testequity.com/
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