ufs file

idella4 · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:55 pm Post subject: ufs file

I'm toying with kvm and solaris. I have a solaris 10 vm which is standard ufs.
I would just like to create some volume or image files to utilise on the solaris vm.

ufs is way outside of regular linux practices. So,

gentoo_ram · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:10 pm Post subject:

You said VM. Does this mean you are creating a VM that will run Solaris? If so, you just create image files on the Linux side. You format them on the Solaris VM. The Linux side won't be able to look inside the VM data files anyway.

idella4 · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:49 am Post subject:

gentoo_ram,

yes, thanks. That is quite right. Like I said, I can't mount.

I have a couple of vms of solaris. One has run out of space. So I xen attached another virtual image to the solaris vm. Once booted, I couldn't comprehend the solaris devices. In linux. it's hda hdb or sda sdb. The solaris devices are like lvms, they are sliced up.
Trying to use a solaris management tool, the stupid thing couldn't even see or list the virtual drives.
It listed mounts. It only listed its own system virtual drive and slices, which is a letdown and creates the deficit.
The idea was to create a volume and format it to ufs to help the stupid thing recognize it.
A linux kde or gnome will generally mount other partitions in the background and list them in konqueror or nautilus, asking only for root password to finalise the mount.

Creating a virtual volume, once installed, the install (linux or solaris) generally slices it up into at least a boot and a root partition. Once it does this, it interferes with it being mounted directly via loop. You get, must nominate the file system, even if it contains all ext3 systems on two sub partitions.