Solaris

Hi,

I have the present scenario on a x86 machine.

fdisk c0d0p0

Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
1 Active Solaris2 1 2500 2500 61
2 Solaris2 2501 4094 1594 39



Now how do i access the 2 partition.

Thanks

Normally with Solaris you deal with slices.

So, for example, what is your / mounted on?

/dev/dsk/c0d0s0?

and possibly a separate /export/home on /dev/dsk/c0d0s7.

However i386 based PCs use the term 'partitions' so Solaris lets you reference these as

/dev/dsk/c0d0p0 etc.

so in theory your 2nd partition on the 1st disk should be

/dev/dsk/c0d0p1

I do have

/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 mounted as /
/dev/dsk/c0d0s7 mounted as /export/home

On trying to mount c0d0p1

mount /dev/dsk/c0d0p1 /mnt/a
mount: /dev/dsk/c0d0p1 is not this fstype

Now what shal i do

Have you created a file system in the 2nd partition?

See my first post.

Its a Solaris2 type.

Just because a partition is of a certain type does not mean the partition has been formatted etc. It merely means that the magic number in the main boot record is set to a specific number.

So shall i create one with mkfs