Ultrix device names

[Adrian Graham]

On 23/3/07 18:19, "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:

>>> Or rather, it is one of the partitions on that disk.  ra0a is just
>>> one of the (probably) eight possible partitions on ra0.  On some
>>> systems, the partition table was compiled in; on others, it was read
>>> off the disk.  I don't know which Ultrix 4.3 was.
>> Is there any way to display the partition table of each disk from
>> single user mode?
> 
> If it's a read-off-disk kernel, probably so, but if it's a compiled-in
> kernel, probably not.
> 
> However, as I said, I don't know which of those Ultrix 4.3 is, and if
> it's the latter, I don't know the command (unless by chance it's the
> "disklabel" I'm used to in modern open-source BSD).

Ultrix is BSD related, so to read the label you use 'disklabel -r', to edit
the label it's 'disklabel -er' which invokes ed to actually edit the label.

IIRC the default label was / on partition a, swap on b and /usr on g but
it's been a long time since I've used ultrix in anger, probably 8 years or
so. OSF/1 used the same defaults before it morphed into Tru64 V5 and moved
onto SystemV device naming.

Cheers

A

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