Hey Ian, I did, I pulled out all of my old books on Solaris, then googled, then illumos docs and even the oracle docs.
But I do need some way of knowing how to work On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Ian Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > Avi Deitcher wrote: > >> I have a gpt partitioned disk. ls /dev/dsk (and /dev/rdsk) gives: >> >> c0t0d0 >> c0t0d0p0 >> c0t0d0p1 >> c0t0d0p2 >> c0t0d0p3 >> c0t0d0p4 >> c0t0d0s0 >> . >> (skips s7) >> . >> c0t0d0s15 >> >> How do these map to the actual partitions? >> >> They don't, at least not the sxx slices which are slices withing a > partition. > > <snip> > >> >> 1- How do these map to the actual partitions? >> > > I suggest yo google for Solaris disk partitioning or such like and read up > on how Solaris derived OSs manage their disks. > > 2- The actual disk has partitions 0-7,9-17 (skipping the 9th from >> beginning), but /dev/dsk and /devices/ skip h and s7, or 8th from beginning >> (unless it ignores the 0th partition?) >> 3- What happens if I have 25 or 30 partitions, or more than the 20 listed >> here. EFI/GPT support it, format -e supports it, what would the /dev/dsk >> devices be? >> > > On a typical SmartOS deployment, you will be using whole drives. As > above, I suggest to look up more generic Solaris disk management. > > >> (please reply-all so I get the message, doesn't get lost in digest) >> > > And please try and maintain coherent threads in your replies! > > -- > Ian. > > -- Avi Deitcher [email protected] Follow me http://twitter.com/avideitcher Read me http://blog.atomicinc.com ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
