24 Jun
1997
24 Jun
'97
3:08 p.m.
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.
This takes a long time as it zeroes/initializes parity. I think it gives you an estimate of time...
Note: we may need to work on the time estimates. They seem pretty pessimistic; I seem to remember recent ones with a 230 and ~ 50G disk estimating something like 4 hours, but actually completing in well under 2.