How to mount Solaris Hard Drive

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I have received a HDD. It has single partition with id 42 SFS covering the whole partition. But I am reliably told that it came from Sun Fire XXXX (where XXXX is 15 hundred or thousand or something like that).

Please help me to mount it.

I'm sure that it is not SFS.

Running strings against the device shows loads of files/text etc.

I've tried mounting it as UFS/ZFS/newfs, doesn't work. Tried to run fsck to find the correct magic number, still doesn't work.

I'm thinking that the drive was part of Solaris Volume Manager or Hardware Raid. Any tips on how to verify this and mount the harddrive under solaris?

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The Sun-Blade-1500 is a SPARC machine. A Solaris 11 VM (assuming on x86) won't mount a SPARC disk, unless perhaps if it is an EFI disk with ZFS.

Your disk is more likely ufs or vxfs. There is no fdisk partition table on SPARC disks, as they aren't using BIOS. The ID 42 partition is probably just an artifact.

Should you want to try mounting it and assuming you didn't break it with fsck or newfs, you first need to find SPARC hardware, at least if you use Solaris. Linux might be able to read a sun label and mount its big endian ufs although I'm skeptical about it.

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You can use the subst command in Windows.

subst m: c:\foo

To make a persistent redirection, you can edit the registry. Add a string (REG_SZ) value to:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices

Set the name of the value to the drive letter (e.g. M:), then the data to:

\??\C:\foo\foosub

This method will work across logins and reboots. I tested this on Windows 2008, so it should also work on Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

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I assumed that disk A is not mounted as the root (/) filesystem. If it is, just ignore lines with driveA.

Edit your /etc/fstab:

/dev/diskA    /var/www/          auto   defaults    1   2
/dev/diskB    /var/www/upload    auto   defaults    1   2

You can replace "auto" by the filesystem you have on that partition, but the above should work anyway.

If disks A and B are mounted elsewhere you can try symlinking:

ln -s /path/to/driveA_mountpoint /var/www/
ln -s /path/to/driveB_mountpoint /var/www/upload

Note: /var/www and directory "upload" on driveA must not exist or this will fail.

Personally I prefer using the bind option of mount:

mount -o bind /var/www/ /path/to/driveA_mountpoint
mount -o bind /var/www/upload /path/to/driveB_mountpoint

Consider editing /etc/fstab though - it's probably the best way.

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