Access to /dev/hda4p1 ?

[Adriel Cardenas G.]

on 24/04/2006 13:00 Chris Linton-Ford said the following:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have a disk setup that looks like the following:
> 
> [root at box ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2              14        2180    17406427+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda3            2181        2244      514080   82  Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> /dev/hda4            2245        3738    12000555   83  Linux
> 
> hda4 has been (sub)partitioned so that fdisk reports the following:
> 
> [root at box ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hda4
> 
> Disk /dev/hda4: 12.2 GB, 12288568320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1494 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda4p1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4p2              14        1494    11896132+  8e  Linux LVM
> 
> What I would like to know is, how can I get access to (i.e. mount) these 
> partitions? The /dev/hda4p{0,1} special files don't exist, and I have 
> had no success creating them with mknod as I don't know what the major 
> or minor device numbers should be.
> 
> Any help gratefully receieved.
> 
> Chris L-F
> 

Why does it say Solaris in those partitions?? is it solaris installed 
there???, in that case  you're trying to access a Solaris slice, those 
are partitions within a big Solaris partition, with the UFS. Try a 
little search about "mounting ufs partition and slices".

Regards

Adriel