From: vladimir@intrepid.com (Vladimir Vukicevic) Subject: Re: Help - how to create /dev/sda9? Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 03:09:59 GMT
In article <1993Apr18.025645.1941@intrepid.com> vladimir@intrepid.com (Vladimir Vukicevic) writes:
>In article <1qc30fINN1to@tamsun.tamu.edu> tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) writes:
>>Howdy netters,
>>
>>I am trying to install SLS on g: and h: ( /dev/sda8 and /dev/sda9)
>>partition of my SCSI drive.
>>
>>/dev/sda8 is to be my main filesystem.
>>/dev/sda9 is to be my swap filesystem.
>>
>>"mke2fs" works fine with /dev/sda8.
>>
>>However, "mkswap" doesn't recognize /dev/sda9. I think its because the scsi
>>device entries in a2 installation disk are limited to /dev/sda8.
>>
>>Q1. How can I create a new entry /dev/sda9?
>>
>>Q2. Is it necessary to create the entry on the floppy? There doesn't seem
>>to be any space left on the floppy.
>>
>>Thank you for your help.
>>
>>Pradeep
>>tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu
>
>Well, for SCSI, the major number is 8 & the minor number is the partition #.
>I think 'mknod /dev/sda9 8 9' will do what you want. I think you can have
>up to 15 partitions; minor 16 is partition 1 of sdb.
>
Oops. The correct command is 'mknod /dev/sda9 b 8 9'. Sorry.
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