I can mount those partitions well using ext2fs, so I assume I won't need to run gparted at all.
This is what prtpart says about my stuff. Kind regards, Antonio root at antonio:~# prtpart /dev/rdsk/c3d0p0 -ldevs Fdisk information for device /dev/rdsk/c3d0p0 ** NOTE ** /dev/dsk/c3d0p0 - Physical device referring to entire physical disk /dev/dsk/c3d0p1 - p4 - Physical devices referring to the 4 primary partitions /dev/dsk/c3d0p5 ... - Virtual devices referring to logical partitions Virtual device names can be used to access EXT2 and NTFS on logical partitions /dev/dsk/c3d0p1 Solaris x86 /dev/dsk/c3d0p2 Solaris x86 /dev/dsk/c3d0p3 Solaris x86 /dev/dsk/c3d0p4 DOS Extended /dev/dsk/c3d0p5 Linux native /dev/dsk/c3d0p6 Linux native /dev/dsk/c3d0p7 Linux native /dev/dsk/c3d0p8 Linux native /dev/dsk/c3d0p9 Linux swap /dev/dsk/c3d0p10 Solaris x86 Jan Hlodan escribi?: > Hi Antonio, > > did you try to recreate this partition e.g. with Gparted? > Maybe is something wrong with this partition. > Can you also post what "prtpart "disk ID" -ldevs" says? > > Regards, > > Jan Hlodan > > Antonio wrote: >> Hi Jan, >> >> I tried out what you say long ago, but zfs fails on pool creation. >> >> This is, when I issue the zpool create trunk /dev/dsk/c9d0p3 the >> command fails saying that there's no such file or directory. And the >> disk is correct!! >> >> What I think is that /dev/dsk/c9d0p3 is a symbolic name used by >> FSWpart, and it's not a valid device name for zpool. >> >> Thanks anyway, >> Antonio >> >> Jan Hlodan escribi?: >>> Antonio wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> First of all let me say that, after a few days using it (and after >>>> several *years* of using Linux daily), I'm delighted with >>>> OpenSolaris 8.11. It's gonna be the OS of my choice. >>>> >>>> The fact is that I installed it in a partition of 16Gb in my hard >>>> disk and that I'd like to add another partition to the system (I >>>> have different partitions with Linux and Windows and some others). >>>> >>>> So the questions are: >>>> >>>> 1.- How do I add an existing partition to OpenSolaris? (Should I >>>> change the partition type or something? Shall I "grow" ZFS or shall >>>> I mount the extra partition somewhere else?) >>>> >>>> >>> yes. You can create a new zpool from your free/spare partition. >>> I had the same problem. I wanted to use Linux partition as a mirror. >>> So here is how to: >>> Follow this blog - >>> http://blogs.sun.com/pradhap/entry/mount_ntfs_ext2_ext3_in >>> * install FSWpart and FSWfsmisc >>> * run prtpart (find out your disk ID) >>> * figure out partitions ID: prtpart "disk ID" -ldevs >>> * create zpool from linux partition e.g. zpool create trunk >>> /dev/dsk/c9d0p3 >>> * check it out: zpool list or zpool status >>> >>> >>>> 2.- Would you please recommend a good introduction to >>>> Solaris/OpenSolaris? I'm used to Linux and I'd like to get up to >>>> speed with OpenSolaris. >>>> >>> sure, OpenSolaris Bible :) >>> http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/two_more_chapters_from_the >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Jan Hlodan >>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> Antonio >>>> >>> >
