What type of names are used for administering disk drives in Solaris environment

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Vasu Rao

  • Feb 2nd, 2012
 

c#t#d#s#
1.c# Controller number
2.t# Target number -- actually disk number
3.d# Disk number -- always d0 for SCSI disks.
4.s# Slice number

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satish51392111

  • Mar 12th, 2012
 

There are 3 types of device names:
1. Logical device names: Present in /dev and are soft links to physical device names in /devices.
Used in command line (i.e., while refering to a device in commands like format)
2. Physical device names: Present in /devices and it they are a series of nodes.
By seeing them, we can locate the actual physical location of a device.
3. Instance names : Short-hand names and abbreviated forms for Physical device names used by the kernel.
Just as we have nicknames, instance names are nicknames of devices(for quick reference).

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