From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael French Subject: Solaris device naming Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:18:16 -0400 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020411141105.0441aa68@ashevillemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org I have been using Linux for several years and feel pretty comfortable with device naming conventions for most things. I have recently started using Solaris quite a bit more (sigh....). I am trying to understand naming conventions for devices such as hard disks, cds, floppies, ethernet, etc. and have not found a good concise source yet. I am reading a Solaris 8 admin book and have gotten about 150 pages into it and have not found much on it yet. Why does Solaris use /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6. I understand that it is in the dsk dir because it is a hard disk and that it is the 6th scsi partition, but what does the other stuff represent? What is the logic behind it? Any help to some good docs or a short description here would be appreciated. Thanks! Cheers, Michael French Asheville Citizen-Times IT Dept. (828)236-8966