Saturday, September 19, 2015

GPT fdisk on illumos

Is there an alternative to the illumos native fdisk? Yes, for example, GPT fdisk from Rod Smith. It includes the gdisk, cgdisk, sgdisk, and fixparts programs. Site mentions only usage on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows, but it is possible that GPT fdisk may be suitable on illumos-based distributions. It requires popt library (OmniOS contains it) and latest version built with no problems, except for a small fix for ncurses.
root@test:# ./gdisk /dev/dsk/c2t3d0p0
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.0

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/dsk/c2t3d0p0: 10485760 sectors, 5.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): F24F914A-AD82-D84D-B0FC-81351563B356
Partition table holds up to 9 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 10485726
Partitions will be aligned on 1-sector boundaries
Total free space is 222 sectors (111.0 KiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1             256        10469342   5.0 GiB     BF01  zfs
   9        10469343        10485726   8.0 MiB     BF07

Command (? for help): i
Partition number (1-9): 1
Partition GUID code: 6A898CC3-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 (Solaris /usr & Mac ZFS)
Partition unique GUID: F9BEC73D-23D3-C168-E74A-D60ED3EC565D
First sector: 256 (at 128.0 KiB)
Last sector: 10469342 (at 5.0 GiB)
Partition size: 10469087 sectors (5.0 GiB)
Attribute flags: 0000000000000000
Partition name: 'zfs'

Command (? for help):
b       back up GPT data to a file
c       change a partition's name
d       delete a partition
i       show detailed information on a partition
l       list known partition types
n       add a new partition
o       create a new empty GUID partition table (GPT)
p       print the partition table
q       quit without saving changes
r       recovery and transformation options (experts only)
s       sort partitions
t       change a partition's type code
v       verify disk
w       write table to disk and exit
x       extra functionality (experts only)
?       print this menu

Command (? for help):

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