On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Given a disk with a partition table thus :
>
>             Total disk size is 17849 cylinders
>             Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
>
>                                               Cylinders
>      Partition   Status    Type          Start   End   Length    %
>      =========   ======    ============  =====   ===   ======   ===
>          1       Active    Solaris           1  8923    8923     50
>          2                 Solaris        8924  13019    4096     23
>
>
>
>
> SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
>   1. Create a partition
>   2. Specify the active partition
>   3. Delete a partition
>   4. Change between Solaris and Solaris2 Partition IDs
>   5. Exit (update disk configuration and exit)
>   6. Cancel (exit without updating disk configuration)
> Enter Selection: 5
>
> Is there any way to access partition 2 ?
>
> I think that tools like prtvtoc and fmthard etc all refer to slices while
> fdisk actually looks at the partition table but no where do I see a mathod
> to look at another partition on a disk.
>
> What I am thinking of is a way to mount a NTFS partition from a dual boot
> machine but before I cross that bridge ( which is easy ) I would rather
> look at the issue of a whole other partition first.

   Try  /dev/dsk/cN...p<partition number>

   p1 ... p4 are the 4 primary partitions.

Regards,
Moinak.

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