On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Walter White <walterjwhite at hotmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all, > > I have Linux installed on my laptop as well and have several partitions I > would like to mount that are formatted with Reiserfs. In Linux, I would > access the device as /dev/sda7, in Open Solaris, I think that would be > /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 since it is in an extended partition. I have gone through > all of the most common configurations c1, c2, c3, c4, ... with no luck. > > Can I mount a ReiserFS partition in Open Solaris? > > I was reading here that ext3 and reiserfs are not part of the Open Solaris > Kernel: > > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Desktop_FAQ_for_Solaris_Nevada_(JDS)?cid=e6214<http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Desktop_FAQ_for_Solaris_Nevada_%28JDS%29?cid=e6214> > > The other thing I noticed in the article too is that if it were a ZFS or > UFS filesystem, it would be mounted automatically. If I can mount reiserfs, > is it possible to declare the mount point in an equivalent /etc/fstab? > > Besides what all the other people have said in reply to the original question, I just need to add that /dev/sda7 is an Extended partition. These are not presently available in Solaris - unless something changed quite recently! I blogged about how Solaris Device names, particularly the ones for disks, works, here: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-solaris-disk-device-names-work.html -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20081120/580ec7c3/attachment.html>
