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A command to format the harddisk

presage112 — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 04:50:48 GMT

Hi all

Is there any command that formats the hardisk , I tried Mediainit but it works only for the tape drive.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

OS ver HP-UX 11.0

Re: A command to format the harddisk

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 04:55:30 GMT

mediainit also works disks. One need to use raw device file with the mediainit command.

sks

Re: A command to format the harddisk

SIJU JOSE — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 04:55:58 GMT

Hi

You can try the following

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/rdsk/cXtXdX bs=1024k

or

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/cXtXdX bs=1024k

Regds
Siju

Re: A command to format the harddisk

Joseph Loo — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 04:56:29 GMT

hi,

how about doing a "pvcreate -f " instead of mediainit?

regards.

Re: A command to format the harddisk

Naveej.K.A — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 04:57:44 GMT

hi,

mediainit is a command which is used to initialize disk as well as a dds tape.

#mediainit /dev/rdsk/c0t4d0
should work for you
man mediainit for more details

also you could pvcreate -f /dev/rdsk/c0t4d0 the disk to wipe off the contents.

you can dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/rdsk/c0t4d0 bs=1024 to wipe the disk

with best wishes
Naveej

Re: A command to format the harddisk

Jose Mosquera — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 05:09:38 GMT

Hi,

Maybe "mediainit" command will be useful for you, this initializes mass storage media by formatting the media (man mediainit for details).

But before use it pls check the following link.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x410d57bd90a9d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

Rgds.

Re: A command to format the harddisk

presage112 — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 05:42:39 GMT

Thanks everybody.

this was so helpful.

Re: A command to format the harddisk

Joseph Loo — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:13:43 GMT

hi,

assign some points to all who help would be appreciated.

regards.