From: Fabrice Guerini (fabrice@bluemartini.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 14:46:26 EDT
Folks,
I am trying to programmatically generate a profile for JumpStart
installations. The issue, here, is that I cannot predict the disk that will
be used for O.S. installation.
In 99% of cases, I will be able to use "c0t0d0s0", but there are fringe
cases where the actual disk where I put my root partition is on a different
device name (case in point, my SunFire 280R is installed on "c1t0d0s0",
while the device on controller 0 is the CD-ROM drive).
I know I can determine the list of mountable devices using "iostat -xpn",
but how can I detect whether the device is a writable disk, suitable for
Solaris installation, or if it isn't (CD-ROM drive or other read-only
device)? The "format" command seems to be able to do that.
Thanks in advance.
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