On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 05:31:22PM -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> Are there redundancies in /dev/[devices], for instance there is a
> /dev/hdd, /dev/hdd1, /dev/hdd2, /dev/hdd3 and /dev/hdd4. What is the
> reason?
These are not redundancies!
hda - Master Drive ide0 - entire drive (this is what you partition)
hda1 - Partition 1
hda2 - Partition 2
hda3 - Partition 3
hda4 - Partition 4
hda5 - Partition 5
:
:
hdb - Slave Drive ide0 - entire drive (this is what you partition)
hdb1 - Partition 1
hdb2 - Partition 2
hdb3 - Partition 3
hdb4 - Partition 4
hdb5 - Partition 5
:
:
hdc - Master Drive ide1 - entire drive (this is what you partition)
hdc1 - Partition 1
hdc2 - Partition 2
hdc3 - Partition 3
hdc4 - Partition 4
hdc5 - Partition 5
:
:
hdd - Slave Drive ide1 - entire drive (this is what you partition)
hdd1 - Partition 1
hdd2 - Partition 2
hdd3 - Partition 3
hdd4 - Partition 4
hdd5 - Partition 5
:
:
hde - Master Drive ide2 - entire drive (this is what you partition)
hde1 - Partition 1
hde2 - Partition 2
hde3 - Partition 3
hde4 - Partition 4
hde5 - Partition 5
:
:
hdf - Slave Drive ide2 - entire drive (this is what you partition)
hdf1 - Partition 1
hdf2 - Partition 2
hdf3 - Partition 3
hdf4 - Partition 4
hdf5 - Partition 5
:
:
Each is different. If you do an "ls -l" on them you will find
that the major.minor pair is different (different major for each ide{n}
controller and different minor for each partition).
There is some redundancy in /dev and it is there for a reason,
but it's not the examples you cited.
> Thanks,
> -Karthik.
> -------------------------------------
> Whatever you want to do, you have to do something else first.
Mike
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