From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Changing device numbers.
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:17:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010313211749.B18064@cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001601c0ac41$fc35a640$0f01a8c0@myplace.net>; from list@showme.wox.org on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:48:16PM -0800
Previously Bas wrote:
> I want root to have major 58, minor 0 and usr major 58, minor 1. How can I
> get that done.
The first thing that comes to my mind is: why would anyone care
what the device numbers are? The whole purpose of device files,
and especially devfs, is that you can use names instead of number
and never need to care about them.
Wichert.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-13 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-14 4:48 [linux-lvm] Changing device numbers Bas
2001-03-13 20:17 ` Wichert Akkerman [this message]
2001-03-14 5:24 ` Bas
2001-03-13 20:43 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-03-14 5:52 ` Bas
2001-03-13 21:41 ` Luca Berra
2001-03-13 20:44 ` Terje Kvernes
2001-03-14 5:57 ` Bas
2001-03-13 21:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-14 16:37 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-03-15 4:11 ` Bas
2001-03-14 20:47 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-03-15 5:29 ` Bas
2001-03-13 20:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-14 6:13 ` Bas
2001-03-13 21:41 ` Andreas Dilger
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