System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Where to Find Disk Management Tasks

Use these references to find step-by-step instructions for managing disks.

Disk Management Task 

For More Information 

Format a disk and examine a disk label 

Chapter 33, Administering Disks (Tasks)

Add a new disk to a SPARC system 

Chapter 34, SPARC: Adding a Disk (Tasks)

Add a new disk to an x86 system 

Chapter 35, x86: Adding a Disk (Tasks)

Hot-Plug a SCSI or PCI disk 

Chapter 28, Dynamically Configuring Devices (Tasks)