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10-20-2011

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I followed in 98 a course multiplatform UNIX (SUNOS, solaris 2.XX, AIX, DG-UX, IRIX) , and digging out a few notes I found:
solaris 2.X:
Use the command prtconf to see what hardware you have!
The devices are created in /devices and links are created in /dev to the device drivers...

(You have a format command: It is for formatting create partitions and check the state of a disk)
Convention
The whole disk can be partitioned in 8 maximum (0 to 7)
the slice 2 is for the whole disk
The information about the partitioning is kept in the label of VTOC
You can use the command prtvtoc to see the content

About /dev:
All devices drivers are in /devices. Because of SVR4 naming conventions the drivers are all referenced in /dev meaning you should not find one true file in /dev but links...
This will help us find the culprit if he is here:

Code:

cure:/dev # ls -l |grep ^-r |wc -l
       0

explanation: long listing (ls -l) begins with file type and permissions 2nd position( but everything is a file under UNIX) and the perms are read write execute x 3 (owner, group, the rest...) if it start with anything else than - (or -r), it cannot be a (standard) file e.g l is for a link d is for a directory

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mkdevalloc

mkdevalloc(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    mkdevalloc(1M)

NAME

       mkdevalloc - Make device_allocate entries

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/mkdevalloc

DESCRIPTION

       The mkdevalloc command writes to standard out a set of device_allocate(4) entries describing the system's frame buffer, audio and removable
       media devices.

       The mkdevalloc command is used by the init.d(4) scripts to create or update the /etc/security/device_allocate file.

       Entries are generated based on the device special files found in /dev. For the different categories  of	devices,  the  mkdevalloc  command
       checks for the following files under /dev:

       audio	       /dev/audio, /dev/audioctl, /dev/sound/...
       tape	       /dev/rst*, /dev/nrst*, /dev/rmt/...
       floppy	       /dev/diskette, /dev/fd*, /dev/rdiskette, /dev/rfd*
       removable disk  /dev/sr*, /dev/nsr*, /dev/dsk/c0t?d0s?, /dev/rdsk/c0t?d0s?
       frame buffer    /dev/fb

       All  entries  set  the  device-minimum  and device-maximum fields to the hex representations of ADMIN_LOW and ADMIN_HIGH, respectively. The
       device-authorization field is set to solaris.device.allocate, except for the framebuffer entry, where it is  set  to  *.  The  device-name,
       device-type and device-clean fields are set to the following values:

		       device-name	device-type   device-clean

       audio	       audio		audio	      audio_clean_wrapper
       tape	       mag_tape_0,1,... st	      st_clean
       floppy	       floppy_0,1,...	fd	      disk_clean
       removable disk  cdrom_0,1,...	sr	      disk_clean
       frame buffer    framebuffer	fb	      /bin/true

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Obsolete			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       allocate(1), bsmconv(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       mkdevalloc might not be supported in a future release of the Solaris operating system.

SunOS 5.10							    8 Oct 2003							    mkdevalloc(1M)

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