Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting Extended partitions logical drives.
Hi Brian, I have used ls --color in .bashrc and it did work when I havn't installed any software. But, Once I have installed java, python 2.5.2, fuse software, ntfs for mounting ntfs, ls --color did not work. Then I have read a blog from one of the sun's employee and he talked about gls and it worked no matter whatever you have installed. Regarding auto mounting may be I might have put the question in a wrong way. In most linux os, the mount all the partitions into media and these partitions appear in the second column of the top os main bar. And, inorder to mount a drive we just have to click on it. I was hoping this same feature in opensolaris. And, is there any way to download 119 source and build it. As, I really don't like running this great OS on a virtual machine. Thanks, ~Tiger. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting Extended partitions logical drives.
srikalyan wrote: Hi Everyone. I am quite new to opensolaris and very much liking it. I would like to know how to mount extended partition on opensolaris (ext lba). I was using ubuntu before opensolaris and ubuntu use to do it automatically (all you need to do is click the drive). I did install every software which is required for mounting the ntfs drives and I can mount a primary partition on which I have vista. But, I also have windows 7 rc and another partition which holds all my code for my research in the extended partition. And, I have search a lot but could not find a right solution. I think the support you need went into snv_119 with PSARC/2006/379 "Solaris on Extended partition" (supporting bug: 6644364 "Extended partitions need to be supported on Solaris"). However, I don't believe snv_119 is available yet. My suggestion to opensolaris team is that opensolaris is definitely is going to be a big hit and you guyz need to add few things so that i makes end user lives easy. for eg: preinstall gls (colored ls) and alias it in .bashrc. I believe this is already there. Admittedly I'm using snv_119 (rather than OpenSolaris), but "ls --color" gives me colour output. Adding the appropriate alias in .bashrc is probably left as a personal configuration rather than out-of-the-box for all users, however, somebody may disagree with me there :-) cd xyz+tab should only point only directories but not files. because it is a cd command. This is a shell thing AFAIK. I use tcsh which can offer completions based on command and filetype. From the tcsh man page: > complete cd 'p/1/d/' will tell tcsh to only complete args to the cd command using directories. I presume bash has something similar? preinstall ntfs-3g and auto mount the partition just clicking the drive just like ubuntu. Bug 6819757 integrated ntfsprogs - I've not checked whether these are the same as (or behave similarly to) ntfs-3g. I'm not convinced by the argument to allow automounting of them (this implies some heuristics to locate and 'type' each partition), but I don't necessarily think it would be a bad thing to do. [ I've lost track of how experimental the NTFS stuff is, so automatically mounting may not be a good idea.] -Brian Thanks, ~Tiger. -- Brian Ruthven Solaris Revenue Product Engineering Sun Microsystems UK Sparc House, Guillemont Park, Camberley, GU17 9QG ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting Extended partitions logical drives.
Hello. I'm experiencing the same trouble. As I understood, the support for extended partitions is included in 119 build of OpenSolaris, however OpenSolaris 09.06 is based on 101b build. There are no 119 build packages available in IPS repositories, so we should wait or build OpenSolaris from latest sources ourself. I understand that it's not convenient, and I'm not happy with this... > Hi Everyone. > I am quite new to opensolaris > and very much liking it. I would like to know how to > mount extended partition on opensolaris (ext lba). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Mounting Extended partitions logical drives.
Hi Everyone. I am quite new to opensolaris and very much liking it. I would like to know how to mount extended partition on opensolaris (ext lba). I was using ubuntu before opensolaris and ubuntu use to do it automatically (all you need to do is click the drive). I did install every software which is required for mounting the ntfs drives and I can mount a primary partition on which I have vista. But, I also have windows 7 rc and another partition which holds all my code for my research in the extended partition. And, I have search a lot but could not find a right solution. My suggestion to opensolaris team is that opensolaris is definitely is going to be a big hit and you guyz need to add few things so that i makes end user lives easy. for eg: preinstall gls (colored ls) and alias it in .bashrc. cd xyz+tab should only point only directories but not files. because it is a cd command. preinstall ntfs-3g and auto mount the partition just clicking the drive just like ubuntu. Thanks, ~Tiger. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
