How to mount Solaris disk as slave? [Was: Using graphical environment]

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kelly wrote:
> It is not recognizing the data on the other drive.  It only sees the
> swap space.  It is asking for the systemfile type.
>
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>
> Here is the output.
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> tester# mount
> /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> tester# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp4sol
> /dev/hdb1 looks like swapspace - not mounted
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
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> tester:# cfdisk /dev/hdb <--- this gives me a fatal error --->  FATAL
> ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends in the final partial
> cylinder.
>
> Is it possible that Debian will not read the partitions?
>
>   

It's probably of type "ufs". You might try "mount -t ufs /dev/hdb1 
/mnt/temp4sol" (although partition 1 probably is swap, in which case 
that won't work).

You'll need to find out which partition the data is on. I like cfdisk, 
but it's not as reliable as plain ol' fdisk. You might try "fdisk" instead.

You mentioned having seven machines. If the other six are still running 
Solaris 9, you can look in it's "/etc/vfstab" to see what partitions 
hold what.


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