On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > Yes, but it won't create past /dev/sd<n>15. The last time I installed > Debian I had put 16 partitions on my brand new 9.1GB SCSI disk and then > found I only had sda devices numbered up to 15. I read the manpage for > /dev/MAKEDEV and found it pretty useless as well for this problem. They > really should tell you how to do things like this, or at least have a > more intuitive way (i.e. /dev/MAKEDEV /dev/sda16). Heh heh, some very > interesting things happen when you try cp on a disk device (after trying > everything else I tried copying sda15 to sda16 thinking it would just > copy the tiny little file... very strange what starts to happen). > > Fortunately though it's not life-or-death that I have 16 partitions so I > was able to just cfdisk 1 away and move on.
It may help clear things up if you look at the output from ls -l /dev/sda16 /dev/sdb brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 May 28 1997 /dev/sda16 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 May 28 1997 /dev/sdb Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
