Messages in this thread | | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: Solaris partitions (was devfs) | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:00:30 +0100 (MET) |
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"Rip Loomis writes" |> |> An excerpt from a Solaris 2.5.1/x86 system's /etc/vfstab follows: |> |> #device device mount FS fsck mount mount |> #to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options |> /dev/dsk/c0d0s6 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s6 /usr ufs 1 no - |> /dev/dsk/c0d0p0:c - /win95 pcfs - yes - |> |> The "p" is only used when referring to non-Solaris partitions on the disk, |> AFAIK. Otherwise, the nomenclature is Controller/Drive/Slice for IDE, |> and Controller/Target(LUN)/Drive/Slice for SCSI.
Looks like 's' is used for SunOS-like partitions (8 slots per disk) while 'p' is used for DOS-like partitions (4 slots per disk, with possible extended partitions. So Solaris/x86 seems to support bith types of partition tables - same as Linux. The different letter marks a different interpretation mode for partition tables.
BTW, would it be possible to build and use 'hybrid' partition tables that way ? We're now using DOS disks the boot sector of which has been patched to look like a valid Sun disk label, so they would appear in both schemes. (Of course, not all slots contain valid entries for the partition type and or size.)
Steffen
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