Changing of device files !!

[Ahmed Saleem]

Hi All,
I want to change the order of device files for HDDs. Now they are physically shown in this order ...
/dev/dsk/disk14
/dev/dsk/disk6
/dev/dsk/disk7
/dev/dsk/disk9
/dev/dsk/disk0
and i want them to b in this order
/dev/dsk/disk0
/dev/dsk/disk1
/dev/dsk/disk2
/dev/dsk/disk3
/dev/dsk/disk4
so how is it possible ...
kindly forward me the whole procedure ....

[Hein van den Heuvel]

dsfmgr -e /dev/dsk/disk14 /dev/dsk/disk0
dsfmgr -e /dev/dsk/disk6 /dev/dsk/disk1
:

See #man dsfmgr

Sometimes -e is handy, but not needed here.

http://btrcx1.cip.uni-bayreuth.de/cgi-bin/manpages/dsfmgr/8

Hein.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

oops, you do need -e, or change the order otherwise you run into conflict for disk0


dsfmgr -e /dev/dsk/disk6 /dev/dsk/disk1
dsfmgr -e /dev/dsk/disk7 /dev/dsk/disk2
dsfmgr -e /dev/dsk/disk9 /dev/dsk/disk3
dsfmgr -e /dev/dsk/disk0 /dev/dsk/disk4
dsfmgr -e /dev/dsk/disk14 /dev/dsk/disk0

Hein.

[Vladimir Fabecic]

DO NOT FORGET that you also have to change links in /etc/fdmns (if using advfs) or edit /etc/fstab if using UFS.

[Ivan Ferreira]

This could be possible as methioned above, you can use dsfmgr -m to "move" one device name to another, and dsfmgr -e to "exchange" between two.

But i'm wondering why are you doing that? You should start to use to see unsorted output in the results of commands. (The sort command could be handy)

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Argh... i got my options mixed up.
The command I intended to show was -m,
and the -e is sometimes handy.


Oh well.

Hein.

[Ahmed Saleem]

Thanks for all ur support ...