On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:17, Jesus Arocho wrote: > This is most confusing. While reading about devsf on a website I found > that the terms /dev/sda1...4 are legacy designations and that they would > be links to the actual devfs node. Since I had created the node with > mknod I went back to try to figure out the link issue. Lo and behold > when I performed an ls on /dev the file sda4 was now a link (I did not > do anything to the machine or file). I tested the drive and it works > fine under root and user. I wish I knew what is going on. If I turn > off the machine, must I wait for some strange event of period of time > before I can mount the drive?
Wasn't there some problems identified with devfs in the latest Mandrake release? I think they recommend disabling it at boot time until they produce a fix (they may have, I just don't like devfs so I left it disabled). t -- PGP key : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key
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