[ug-bosug] HDD Query

Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at Sun.COM
Sat Oct 14 05:29:29 PDT 2006


Ananth Shrinivas wrote:
>> While I tried to mount harddisk I found a lot of hdd device files of 
>> the sort c2d0p0.. 
> > Can I know the scheme on which these names are assigned.. What does 
> the c,d,p,etc denote
> > How do I identify the windows and linux partitions..
>
> http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/iv/3.html

   An additional tool that makes partition viewing/identifying easier is 
prtpart. You
   can download the Solaris x86 package from:

   http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/binfiles/FSWpart.tar.gz

Regards,
Moinak.




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