<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>Linux+Solaris HOWTO: Sharing data</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Linux+Solaris-7.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="Linux+Solaris-5.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="Linux+Solaris.html#toc6" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Linux+Solaris-7.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Linux+Solaris-5.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Linux+Solaris.html#toc6">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="sharing"></A> <A NAME="s6">6. Sharing data</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="ss6.1">6.1 Using a shared partition</A> </H2> <P>If you have build your kernel with Sun disk label support and UFS support as mentioned in section <A HREF="Linux+Solaris-3.html#kernel">building your new kernel</A>, you are now able to mount your Solaris partitions. During boot up, you should get something similar to: <PRE> hda: [PTBL] [523/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > hda3 <Polaris: [s0] hda9 [s1] hda10 [s2] hda11 [s3] hda12 [s6] hda13 [s7] hda14 > </PRE> Meaning (in this case): partition 3 (<CODE>hda3</CODE>) is a Solaris partition with 6 slices (s0,s1,s2,s3,s6,s7). They are mapped to Linux devices <CODE>hda9</CODE> to <CODE>hda14</CODE>. <P>Try mounting your Solaris partitions. When mounting UFS partitions, you always have to add an <CODE>-oufstype=</CODE> argument, in this case <CODE>-oufstype=sunx86</CODE>. So the command to mount a partition is something like: <PRE> mount -oufstype=sunx86 /dev/hda14 /mnt </PRE> Now, test your partition. <EM>Please note: The write support on UFS partitions is very experimental. Please don't trust any data you write on your UFS partitions!</EM> <P>If you want your Solaris partitions automatically mounted at boot time, you can add a line like <PRE> /dev/hda14 /solaris ufs ufstype=sunx86 0 0 </PRE> to your /etc/fstab <H2><A NAME="ss6.2">6.2 Alternative ways</A> </H2> <P>And, of course there are always other ways of sharing data: <DL> <DT><B>Floppy disk</B><DD><P>I don't know which floppy disk file systems are supported by Solaris. Do you? Mail me. <DT><B>Network</B><DD><P>Solaris knows NFS. Linux knows NFS. This might actually be the best way of sharing data </DL> <HR> <A HREF="Linux+Solaris-7.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Linux+Solaris-5.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Linux+Solaris.html#toc6">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>