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Old 9th June 2008
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Originally Posted by ephemera View Post
heatherval,

you write so many posts that its difficult for anyone else to follow the discussion and it only adds to the confusion.

please see your own post #6 - it looks promising.

> mount: /dev/dsk/c6d1p0 is not a DOS filesystem.

"p0" is used to access the "whole" disk which is not what you want.
I feel the need to clear up some confusion.

p0 is NOT the whole disk. p0 is the first primary partition. p1 p2 p3 refer to primary partitions 2 3 and 4 while p4 refers to an extended partition. Every time a disk is installed in Solaris x86 it automatically makes those device entries even if they don't actually exist. In your example, c6d1 would refer to the entire disk and c6d1p0 would refer to the first primary partition.

The man page for pcfs states that if you are using non-diskette media the command would be:

mount -F pcfs device-special:logical-drive directory name

In your example the command should be:

mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c6d0p0:c /mountpoint

So the entry in vfstab would be:

/dev/dsk/c6d0p0:c - /mountpoint pcfs - yes -

Hope this helps. PCFS can be confusing because you would think that c6d0p6 would refer to the first extended partition, but in fact it is referenced as c6d0p0:d. Thank you SUN for making it "crystal clear"
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