Hi friends,
What is the basic difference between a partition(p) and a slice(s). And what does c,t, and d mean in c0t0d0?
Thanks in advance!
I suspect this to have been already answered a gazillion times in this forum. Anyway, a partition is what the BIOS call a primary partition and is limited to 4 while a slice is a subdivision of a Solaris/Solaris2 partition and you can have up to 8 or 16 ones depending on the architecture.
c = controller
t = target
d = disk
What a does a target mean?
And my system shows p0,p1,p2,p3, and 4, it is 5 primary partitions, not four.
And my system has got one sata disk, with two primary partitions formatted as fat32, how can I mount the first primary partition?
Thanks
p0 is the whole disk while 1, 2, 3 and 4 are the partitions. so there are 4 possible primary partitions!
p2 should be the whole disk (backup slice) and not p0 right?
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Thanks buddy, you are my man!!!
I am going to read that article in detail!!!!
No, you are confusing p2 with the s2 convention.
And that only applies to non-EFI labelled disks.
EFI labels can not overlap.