[Info-vax] Ods2 reader utility mount

ChrisQ blackhole at devnull.com
Tue Sep 8 12:03:15 EDT 2009


Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 
> c6t1d0s2 IS the whole disk.  AFAIK no one uses it for anything but it's 
> there!
> 

Correct, but it's still looking through the partition table, where 
what's wanted for a 'foreign' disk is the raw device starting at block 0.

...and s2 is used, if you have mirror or raid metadevices defined. In 
that case, you typically use the whole drive, with all the other 
partitions unused :-)...

Regards,

Chris



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