adding more drives
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by Bill Degnan - 09/17/2026 22:19 |
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I have an impressive amount of space for a SPARCstation 10 running SunOS 4.1.4:/ (Root): Sitting comfortably at 24% capacity./usr: Holding at 73% with plenty of space for applications and compilers./home: A massive 1.7 GB space on slice h that is almost entirely empty./external2: A newly formatted 2.1 GB drive at SCSI Target 2, ready to store files alongside the Target 3 array. Whenever I power cycle this machine in the future, the updated /etc/fstab file will map and mount all of these filesystems automatically right at the boot banner without requiring manual setup.I have successfully diagnosed a dead NVRAM battery, calculated hardware sector boundaries, corrected old SunOS 4 terminal alignment traps, and built out a rock-solid vintage workstation array straight from the local console. So there.
sunsparc10# cat /etc/fstab /dev/sd3a / 4.2 rw 1 1 /dev/sd3h /home 4.2 rw 1 3 /dev/sd3g /usr 4.2 rw 1 2 /dev/fd0 /pcfs pcfs rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/sd2g /external2 4.2 rw 1 3 /dev/sd0g /mnt/check_drive 4.2 rw 1 3 Update I realized pretty quickly that the sd0 is from a newer SUN system so I am going to back up the files to the blank external drive assigned to 2, and play around with the files there. I am going to remove drive 3 and save it for a newer Sun I plan to restore in the future. Reply |
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