[j-nsp] Partition/Format new HD

[Brendan Mannella]

Yes, but that command did not work for me until I did "request system
snapshot partition" first. Then I did "request system partition hard-disk"

Initially I replaced the bad disk with a brand new SSD out of the box,
booted and ran. "request system partition hard-disk" and I got the following
error..

root at ibr1.pit> request system partition hard-disk
mount: /dev/ad1s1e on /altconfig: incorrect super block
ERROR: Can't access hard disk, aborting partition.

Not until I ran "request system snapshot partition" first did it work.


On 8/21/09 1:53 PM, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:56:45 -0700
>> From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net>
>> Sender: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> 
>>> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:32:30 -0400
>>> From: Brendan Mannella <bmannella at teraswitch.com>
>>> Sender: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I have been battling trying to replace a failed hard disk on my juniper m7i.
>>> I have finally got the disk to be recognized by the system. Now I need to
>>> put all the partitions back. The router successfully boots from the CF so I
>>> can run system commands.
>>> 
>>> I tried..
>>> 
>>> root at ibr1.pit> request system partition hard-disk
>>> mount: /dev/ad1s1e on /altconfig: incorrect super block
>>> ERROR: Can't access hard disk, aborting partition.
>>> 
>>> Am I missing a command first?
>> 
>> request system snapshot partition
>> 
>> but, if the disk is already partitioned for Windows, you should first
>> start shell and 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adq bs=512 count=1024
>> 
>> This assumes the hard disk is ad1. You can confirm this with 'tail
>> /var/run/dmesg' after starting shell or 'file show /var/run/dmesg' in
>> the CLI.
> 
> Replying to myself to correct my mistakes:
> 
> The command to wipe the partition table on a disk set up for Windows, it
> should have read:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1024
> Lazy finger!
> 
> More importantly, once that is done 'request system partition hard-disk'
> is the correct way to partition the hard drive. the snapshot command
> will only create the partitions needed to snapshot the flash and not 'b'
> (swap) or 'f' (var) which don't exist on the CF.
> 
> Sorry for posting the bogus information.