On Sunday 13 January 2002 4:57 am, USM Bish wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:32:00PM -0500, chandrasekar wrote: > > How do I rename a hdd partition which is already mounted ? > > Cud anyone give the details of it. > > ---end quoted text--- > > HDD partitions are not user nameable. They are recognised as > /dev/hdxN (where x is a,b,c etc and N is a number). These > are picked up by the kernel and cannot be even named, forget > renamed.
This is, of course, wrong. HDD partitions, like most other things in Linux, are renamable. What matters are the major/minor numbers for devices in linux (which are assigned by the kernel developers - and are registered/documented in Documentation/devices.txt). Try this as root mknod /tmp/mypersonalharddisk b 3 0 fdisk -l /tmp/mypersonalharddisk (Assuming you indeed have a primary master HDD) Or: mknod /tmp/slashusrpartition b 3 6 mount -t ext2 /tmp/slashusrpartition /usr (Assuming you, like me, keep /usr on /dev/hda6 normally. You need to mount /tmp earlier if you keep that on a separate partition.). Anyway, IMO, the OP is looking for changing mount point name. That can be done by editing /etc/fstab (be careful, though). Binand _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
