Solaris woes

greay · Post by **greay** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 3:33 pm

I know Solaris isn't Linux, but I need to vent. And maybe get help, if anyone can.

So I have these files on the Solaris partition of this HD. Solaris won't recognize the computer's CD burner (or I can't figure it out) or its ethernet card. I put the HD in my Linux machine & I can't get it to mount the partition. Nothing at all is working.

So I was trying to copy the files to a new HD from w/in Solaris, and I was trying to format a spare drive. BUT... I accidentally formatted the wrong drive. :!

What I did was this:

mkfs -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0d0p0 some-big-number

instead of:

mkfs -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c0d1p0 some-big-number

Or maybe I should've used c0d1sN. Whatever; it doesn't matter now because it completely screwed the machine. c0d1 was the empty HD. c0d0, of course, was the one w/Solaris on it.

I'm thinking that maybe just the partition table is fubar, and the data's still there? Since Solaris is on the 2nd partition, I'm hoping that mkfs would be smart enough not to touch data on that partition? Right? Except when I booted from the install CD & tried to copy the files I got all sorts of errors.

Any ideas on what I can do?

bender · Post by **bender** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:10 pm

I might be wrong but in theory you could probably recover the most important files. I don't know how-to though. There was a way for ext2 filesystems (debugfs, lsdel...?) to recover your data after formatting

There're also some comercial programs for data recovery like Stellar Phoenix http://www.stellarinfo.com but I don't have a clue if any of them is valid for Solaris ufs, so I can't help you here

So I can only tell you that if you had changed your patition table only (fdisk program like) the solution would be as simply as to leave the table as it was before

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Godfearing greay wrote:I know Solaris isn't Linux, but I need to vent. And maybe get help, if anyone can.

Is Unix and there's an OpenSolaris project, your thread is valid for me and there's some people here that can probably help you a bit more

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:11 am

LOL Slowaris. Sorry, couldn't resist.

greay · Post by **greay** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:32 pm

I really hate Solaris.

bender · Post by **bender** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:24 pm

In my opinion Solaris is intended for big systems. You can use it on your desktop computer (if this is what you are doing) but is intended for other main uses

One of the best features is a very advanced hottpluging system, letting you change proccessors and harddrives on the fly (without switching the systems off

). Think in all those big machines that are critical for a company and then think in Solaris like a nice solution

Ex-Cyber · Post by **Ex-Cyber** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:48 pm

In my opinion Solaris was Sun's way of locking customers into Sun hardware and now only exists for backward compatibility. But that's because I'm feeling kinda cynical.

bender · Post by **bender** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:13 pm

yep, I agree . I just wanted to see something good in Solaris

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I was under the impression that it had been a quite used system but I uderstand that usually things change after some years.
And being a free software user/lover for some years, I shoudln't have said such a thing