sdimkosr5(1M)
sdimkosr5 --
Convert a disk formatted for SCO OpenServer to UnixWare
Synopsis
/sbin/sdimkosr5 device
Description
The sdimkosr5 command
converts a hard disk that has previously been initialized for
SCO OpenServer to the UnixWare-supported raw disk format.
This allows raw disk access of existing SCO OpenServer databases
either for direct reading
or as input to filesystem conversion tools.
Options
sdimkosr5 takes the following option:
device-
Specifies the raw device containing the disk to be converted.
For example:
sdimkosr5 /dev/rdsk/c1b0t0d0s0
Usage
The sdimkosr5 command
uses the absolute Read and Write ioctls to extract the
fdisk(1M)
table.
It then determines which is the active SCO OpenServer partition,
extracts the divvy information,
and writes it to disk in a UnixWare-compatible
VTOC format.
In a UnixWare environment, a converted disk has no support for
new bad block (UnixWare) or bad track (SCO OpenServer) remapping,
but previously remapped bad tracks are still maintained.
Notices
This command cannot be run on the boot disk.
Return values
sdimkosr5
returns 0 upon success, an error message and non-zero return
value otherwise.
References
fdisk(1M)
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 25 April 2004