User Guide

14 NetWare Server Disks and Storage Devices Administration Guide
NetWare Server Disks and Storage Devices Administration Guide
103-000179-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Partition examples
The following are example partition entries with the device information:
Unpartitioned - D:0x1-1
 Unpartitioned indicates that the device is unpartitioned.
 D:0x is the device number.
 -1 is the chunk number. (A unique number that this is the first
unpartitioned segment on device 1.)
NSS-P:0x15-1
 NSS-P:0x15-1 indicates that this is an unassigned NSS partition.
 P:0x15 is the partition ID.
 -1 is the chunk number (this will always be 1 because it consumes the
entire partition).
Traditional P:0x15b-2
 Traditional indicates that this is a traditional volume with unassigned
space.
 -P:0x1b is the partition number of the traditional partition ID.
 -2 is the chunk number indicating that this is the second piece of free
space in this unused partition.
If the object ID number contains a “P,” the partition does not have a mirror
object ID. The selected object has an unmirrored physical partition ID.If the
object ID number contains an “M,” the partition is mirrored. The ID number
following the “M” is the ID of the mirror group instead of an individual
partition.For example, M:0x14-1 indicates that the partition exists on the
group of partitions represented by the mirror ID 0x14. Traditional - M:0x1c-1
indicates that the traditional partition exists on the group of mirrored partitions
represented by mirror ID 0x14.
Device Names
Devices such as hard disks and adapters are identified not only by a
nonpersistent object number, see “Object Numbers” on page 13, but also by a
permanent device name. When a hard disk fails, the failure message includes
the device name so you can identify the disk or adapter.