KS won't partition drives

Philip Rowlands phr at doc.ic.ac.uk
Wed Aug 18 16:30:11 UTC 2004


On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Blair Lowe wrote:

>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????

Erm, that's creating hda1, not hdb. The "b" in the command above is
short for "block", i.e. a block (not a character) device.

Ignoring kickstart/anaconda, and just looking at my local RedHat system:

$ ls -l /dev/hda{,1,2,3,4,5} /dev/hdb{,1,2,3,4,5}
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   0 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   1 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda1
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   2 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda2
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   3 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda3
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   4 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda4
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,   5 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda5
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  64 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  65 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb1
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  66 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb2
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  67 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb3
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  68 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb4
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  69 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb5

Those are the major and minor node numbers used by Linux; promise, I
didn't make them up :)


Cheers,
Phil





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