<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>> You should ideally have one slice device for each GPT partition.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_-7736120084063151778_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto"><br></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><font face="Roboto"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Looks like the max number of GPT partitions supported is 7. When my solaris/illumos partition is 8 as the number as listed on parted, the OI live image cannot find it anymore.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><font face="Roboto"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">Parted and these fs, partitioning tools need updating. It cannot recognize many newer filesystems. fstyp cannot recognize newer FSs either.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><font face="Roboto"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Roboto">off-topic: where's (site lnk) the bug reporting tool for illumos?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_-7736120084063151778_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Atiq</span></a></p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss <<a href="mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org" target="_blank">openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 at 17:53, Atiq Rahman <<a href="mailto:atiqcx@gmail.com" target="_blank">atiqcx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I see that parted can list all the partitions and format can list some. However, not all of them were listed under /dev/dsk or /dev/rdsk I could only see p0 to p4 (I guess illumos skipped the linux partitions).<br>
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The p* devices are probably not what you're looking for. The p0<br>
device is generally "the whole disk", including access to the<br>
partition table, etc. The p1-4 devices are for access to the classic<br>
MBR primary partitions, of which there can only be four.<br>
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If you've created a modern, EFI/GPT style partition table, and<br>
format(8) can see those GPT partitions, then what you want are the s*<br>
or "slice" devices, which is how we refer to them. You should ideally<br>
have one slice device for each GPT partition.<br>
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Cheers.<br>
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-- <br>
Joshua M. Clulow<br>
<a href="http://blog.sysmgr.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blog.sysmgr.org</a><br>
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