BDF Command

[Richard Brak_2]

When trying to perform a BDF command on my disk, I receive the following message:

bdf: /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0: Invalid argument

What am I doing wrong?

[Mark Greene_1]

you can run bdf against one or more file system, but not against the drives themselves.

mark

[Alzhy]

You do not use bdf on physical disks.. you use it on Filesystems ie: bdf /var

[Geoff Wild]

You don't do bdf on the /dev/rdsk/disk

But on:

bdf /usr
or
bdf /dev/vg00/lvol7
or
bdf /dev/dsk/c0t6d0


Rgds...Geoff

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

What's actually you trying to do?

# bdf

This command will give you a list of all mounted file systems and it's usage. If you want to know about a specific disk, use these commands:

# diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0
# pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c0t6d0

Remember that 'rdsk' is for raw devices and 'dsk' is for block devices.

[Richard Brak_2]

Thanks guys, diskinfo worked fine.