xen discuss - Jan 2009 - Adding local disk device?

Hello,

I''m curious if there is any sort of convention for adding a local disk 
device. Specifically whether I should specify an fdisk partition as part 
of the device name like /dev/dsk/c0t2d0p0, or specify a slice like 
/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s2.

It appears that I can use either, but is one method more commonly used 
than the other?

  --joe

Joseph Mocker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I''m curious if there is any sort of convention for adding a local
disk
> device. Specifically whether I should specify an fdisk partition as part 
> of the device name like /dev/dsk/c0t2d0p0, or specify a slice like 
> /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s2.
> 
> It appears that I can use either, but is one method more commonly used 
> than the other?

I assume you mean give an entire physical
disk to a guest. If so, you should use c0t2d0p0.

if you wanted to break up a physical disk into slices,
you could give individual slices to the guests..

i.e.
    c0t2d0s0, c0t2d0s1, c0t2d0s3, etc.




MRJ