Re: Raw usage in Solaris

In article <3CE22CED.DEB5702A_at_teleatlas.com>, you said (and I quote):
> > That's what I thought. So I went to /dev/rdsk and did that for the
> > "cxtydzsw" that I wanted to use. It silently finished, but no change
> > whatsoever to the ownership when I checked with "ls -al".
>
> 1. man chown

Yup, I know the command. "-R" is for recursive changes to ownership. "- h" I've never used. Will look it up. Ta.

> 2. because "cxtydzsw" is a soft link to the original device, use -h and -R options of chown to change the
> permissions

Interesting. I thought anything in "/dev/rdsk" was actually a reference to a device entry. Because of the "r" in "rdsk". I know the ones in "/dev/dsk" are links. Hence the reference to "node,device" in the "ls - al" of "/dev/rdsk". Live and learn. Will try the "-h -R" options next time I'm re-doing the partitions. Thanks a lot.

> > Then I went to Sun Solaris support site and dug for raw devices.
> > Found a reco to use SDS or VxV in order to set this, as Solaris
> > will silently ignore the ownership change unless there is an LVM
> > of some sort in place.
>
> Wrong.
>

Believe you. Will chase it up again and leave a note to see if they can fix it.

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