On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > Thank you - But I already knew all that. Here's what's weird, and where the > confusion is coming from: > > First, fdisk only supports 4 partitions. So the existence of p0, p1, p2, > p3, p4 is weird. Cuz that's five.
That's because p1-p4 are the fdisk partitions, and p0 is the special device that refers to the disk as a whole. Same naming convention, but 2 different things. (At least they're not overloaded the way that s2 is for slices.) > If you simply reference the d0 in zpool create... Then it will create the d0 > device. By looking at the major,minor numbers, it seems to be synonymous > with another random thing, like s5 or something... But not p0, not s2, and > not s0. So the logic of all of this evades me... Logic? There's probably logic if you look at the historical development of the naming scheme, but I think you're trying to read to much into this. There are separate names for different purposes. Just use p* from fdisk. Just use s* to refer to Solaris slices. Just use d0 for zfs to refer to the whole drive. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
