On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:00:17PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:20:00PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer said that > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 06:46:15PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > > > hmm, on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:56:31PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter said that > > > > Try fsck /dev/rsvnd0a > > > > > > yes, this works. thanks. > > > > > > so i guess the man page should be changed as well, no? > > > > Which manpage? fsck (and a bunch of others, like fdisk, disklabel, ...) > > do only work on char devices (the ones with 'r' in front). > ^^^^ > btw, isn't that raw? > raw devices are still block based, no?
The kernel knows only two types of devices: char and block. Char devices in the context of disks are also called "raw", access to them doesn't go through the buffer cache. AFAIK the block based addressing of the physical device is hidden in the driver. > > -f > -- > man is the only animal that blushes. or needs to.
