Have a look at my recent blog entry on this question here: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-solaris-disk-device-names-work.html
To see a list of disks, start "format" as root. You can see Removable disks by running rmformat. Device aliases are discussed in detail in my blog post. _Johan On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:41 AM, darren <darren.e at sky.com> wrote: > looked through some docs here: > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.exp~47.23#hic<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.exp%7E47.23#hic> > > but cannot find an answer in the Sysadmin advanced nor basic docs?? > > I'm running opensolaris 2008 on an i86 PC with a zpool boot. What is the > nonclementure (naming convention) for physical devices in Solaris and how do > I get a list of physical disks and partitions? > > On Arch linux the devices are /dev/sd[a-d] for IDE drives (using libata) > and partitions are 1,2,3 so on. So first IDE drive second partition would be > /dev/sda2. fdisk -l would give me a list of devices and partitions. > > Solaris has the prtconf and zpool but I cannot seem to get the info I need. > > ideas please good folk? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org > -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Afrikaanse Stap Website: http://www.bloukous.co.za My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com ICQ = 193944626, YahooIM = johan_hartzenberg, GoogleTalk = jhartzen at gmail.com, AIM = JohanHartzenberg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080802/e2c010a4/attachment.html>
