A command to format the harddisk

[presage112]

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

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

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

sks

[SIJU JOSE · Accepted solution]

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

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

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

regards.

[Naveej.K.A]

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

[Jose Mosquera]

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.

[presage112]

Thanks everybody.

this was so helpful.

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

assign some points to all who help would be appreciated.

regards.