KS won't partition drives

[Blair Lowe]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 01:41, Philip Rowlands wrote:

> Not on my system:
> 
> $ grep hdb /etc/makedev.d/linux-2.4.x
> b $STORAGE               3  64  1  33 hdb
> 
> or just consult the existing entries in /dev:
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/hda{,1}
> brw-rw----  1 root disk 3, 0 Feb 23 21:02 /dev/hda
> brw-rw----  1 root disk 3, 1 Feb 23 21:02 /dev/hda1
> 

Thanks again Phil!

I'm working on the mknod: the hda one succeeded, but my confusion is
that /dev/hda1 would be the first partition of the one drive, and hdb
would be the second ide drive, so why would you go:

mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1

for hdb????

Blair.