On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Brian Pawlowski wrote:
So, I've got two more questions, one semi-technical, and one not:
- How do you delete the file system on a NetApp? If I want to newfs the
file system, how do I do it?
I think you do a floppy boot and you get a menu, you then do option 1 "Create new file system" or some such.
Yeah, you just boot with the boot floppy and then get a nice little menu where you can "Initialize" or "Create" a new filesystem (don't remember exactly what the option was called but it's pretty obvious).
A hint: first backup your /etc directory on the filer to a unix machine so that you can easily restore the files there when you've re-initialized the toaster's filesystem.
Then you just issue a "download" command at the filer's administration prompt and it'll write the bootimage in /etc/boot to disk. Don't forget that or you won't be able to boot other than from floppy ;)
This takes a long time as it zeroes/initializes parity. I think it gives you an estimate of time...
Well I wouldn't rely too much on that - our F540 said it would take some 300 minutes to zero the disks but in reality it took about an hour I think.
maytag is popular. We've been using machine tool names "bosch", "makita".
Appliance brand names are fun: whirlpool, kenmore, etc.
:-) We named our F540 after a brewing company because the clients are all named after soda brands.
/Ragnar, Algonet/TNI