Re: [osol-discuss] Re: to find logical drives in solaris 10

2007-05-02 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: Am I alone in finding this scheme of naming convoluted? Can't this be made simpler? Are there any plans to do so? Many people find it convoluted and someday it should be fixed (or hope that the PC industry catches up on EFI/GPT). Next time Frank

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: to find logical drives in solaris 10

2007-05-02 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Am I alone in finding this scheme of naming convoluted? Can't this be made simpler? Are there any plans to do so? Many people find it convoluted and someday it should be fixed (or hope that the PC industry catches up on EFI/GPT). Next time Frank Hofmann is in the U.S., buy him a drink and he

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: to find logical drives in solaris 10

2007-05-02 Thread Manoj Joseph
p1-p4 are primary partitions, p0:N are logical drives. pcfs(7FS) http://faq.solaris-x86.org/9.html#9.10 Am I alone in finding this scheme of naming convoluted? Can't this be made simpler? Are there any plans to do so? Today, Solaris can be installed only on a primary partition. Are there pl

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: to find logical drives in solaris 10

2007-05-02 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
What is the proper command to show other fdisk partitions? fdisk(1M) Further, is there any way to show (& even mount) a "logical" (i.e., extended fdisk) partition? One step back, how do I mount a primary fdisk partition? p1-p4 are primary partitions, p0:N are logical drives. pcfs(7FS) h

[osol-discuss] Re: to find logical drives in solaris 10

2007-05-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> What exactly you mean by "logical drive"? If you want > to find disk > drives and their partitions, use "format" command. > -Atul > -- > Atul Vidwansa > Cluster File Systems Inc. > http://www.clusterfs.com >From my end, "format" only shows the slices in a Solaris partition. What is >the prope