On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:46 PM, A.M. Abdelaziz <AMAMH3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> so simple: > I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 , now where are my partitions ? > You must give us some more information about your question. At a guess, you are talking about fdisk partitions, and the answer is "it depends on how you installed OpenSolaris" Most importantly: What have you tried, or conversely, what makes you think you have partitions, or what makes you think you have lost partitions? I have done a fairly comprehensive post about Solaris Device names and in particular, disk devices, including partitions on my blog (here: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-solaris-disk-device-names-work.html ) But I could give some more basic information. Depending on whether you come from a Windows or Linux background, the first part of the answer is: Windows presents file systems on disk partitions as "drive letters". Linux presets file systems on "block devices" as mount points. I am deliberately being a bit pedantic here, in part because other people will find this post and it may answer some of their questions, and in part because I have no clue as to what you really want to know because your question is a bit vague and your level of knowledge about file systems and disk devices is something I just simply don't know. Solaris traditionally uses "slices", a concept which does not normally exist on x86 systems. However this is implemented by using a single fdisk primary partition, into which Solaris writes a "VTOC". This VTOC essentially tells Solaris where every "slice" starts and stops. All the slices themselves needs to be contained within that fdisk partition. With the advent of ZFS this is fast becomming academic though, since ZFS by default uses the entire fdisk primary partition and splits it up in a very free and dynamic way - no more setting of boundaries for datasets based on location on the disk. Next, Solaris presents some "device files" which can be used to access partitions other than the one(s) from which Solaris boots, etc. Those are detailed in my blog post. I need to mention though that accessing the partition is not the same as accessing the files stored in a file system. In order to mention the files stored in file systems in your "missing partitions", what you want is actually to mount those file systems. Depending on the file system type, such as NTFS, ext2, FAT32, etc, you will need some kind of "driver" for those file systems. Solaris currently ships with only a few file system drivers. In particular, support for NTFS and EXT2 / EXT3 is missing. Here is to hoping that these will get supported soon. Note: There are a number of packages available on the web which might give you read or sometimes read/write access to these file systems. I have not realy tested any of those and I am weary of these as they are often the work of a single person and you can not hold them accountable if something goes wrong, doesn't work, or new updates don't get released. Hope this helps. -- 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/20081220/9901157c/attachment.html>
