How to undo a cooked file system on solaris 2.5.1

Hi listers, I'm a System Administrator for a financial institution and I am reinstaliing informix IDS 7.30.UC3 and I want to use some filesystems or slices that were previously used as "cooked" devices as "raw" devices now. I was told that I need to delete or undo the filesystems created on those slices. I'm not aware of a unix command to do that. What are the issues here? Thanks in advance for your help! Denmark W. "Knowledge is Power, but it is only useful if it is shared!"

1) dbexport 2) onmode -ky 3) umount /mount_point 4) remove the mount informix from /etc/vfstab. 5) Use format command to repartition that slice ( if you don use logical volume manager... I think you should get some help from Sun Administrator to do Number '4)'... Wish this helps you... Denmark Weatherburn wrote: > Hi listers, > > I'm a System Administrator for a financial institution and I am reinstaliing > informix IDS 7.30.UC3 and I want to use some filesystems or slices that were > previously used as "cooked" devices as "raw" devices now. I was told that I > need to delete or undo the filesystems created on those slices. I'm not > aware of a unix command to do that. > What are the issues here? > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Denmark W. > > "Knowledge is Power, but it is only useful if it is shared!"

You must edit a file named /etc/vfstab and type a "#" at the begining of the line where you look the filesystem. After this, execute "umountall" and "mountall". The filesystem is no longer mounted and you can use it like a raw device. Good luck. Denmark Weatherburn wrote: > Hi listers, > > I'm a System Administrator for a financial institution and I am reinstaliing > informix IDS 7.30.UC3 and I want to use some filesystems or slices that were > previously used as "cooked" devices as "raw" devices now. I was told that I > need to delete or undo the filesystems created on those slices. I'm not > aware of a unix command to do that. > What are the issues here? > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Denmark W. > > "Knowledge is Power, but it is only useful if it is shared!" -- Francisco Gaspar SISTEL (Servicios Informáticos de Software y Telecomunicaciones, S.L.) Avda. Los Jarales, 4 03010 Alicante Tel: 96 593 00 80 Fax: 96 593 01 53