Re: now / does not exist.


Subject: Re: now / does not exist.
From: David Wright (dwright5@nyc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 11:58:43 MST


> Your problem is that the standard linux installation only deals with 16
> partitions.
>
> That means that in the /dev filesystem, only 16 entries per harddisk are
> created (in your case /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hdb16).
>
> If you need more, you can use the command mknod to create more entries.
>
> Example:
> mknod b /dev/hdb17 3 17
>
> Since I don't have access to linux myself right now, I'm typing this off
> of my head, so you should check it (for example on
> http://www.rt.com/man/mknod.1.html if you don't have access to the linux
> man pages)
>
> The 'b' stands for block device
> /dev/hdb17 is the entry in the /dev filesystem you want
> 3 is the major device number (I found this in /etc/filetypes or
> something like that)
> 17 is the minor device number
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Geert

thanks for all the help Geert, i appreciate it.



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