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The Tuesday 2007-09-11 at 12:00 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> > You are probably right.
> >
> > It is fom 0 to 15, which makes 16; but the 0 is the whole disk. So it must
> > be 15 partitions.
> >
>
> Wrong! sda0 is a partition as well as hda0 is a partition _NOT_ the
> whole disk. The whole disk would be sda or hda (without the number).
Wrong, because I'm not refering to that zero, but to the one in the minor
number.
8 block SCSI disk devices (0-15)
0 = /dev/sda First SCSI disk whole disk
16 = /dev/sdb Second SCSI disk whole disk
32 = /dev/sdc Third SCSI disk whole disk
...
240 = /dev/sdp Sixteenth SCSI disk whole disk
Partitions are handled in the same way as for IDE
disks (see major number 3) except that the limit on
partitions is 15.
So, major 8, minor 0 is sda, and major 8, minor 1 is sda1. Check:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> l /dev/sd*
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 2007-09-11 18:55 /dev/sda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 1 2007-09-11 18:55 /dev/sda1
See? :-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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