From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 10:33:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 10:33:34 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:4619 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 10:33:20 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code in userspace Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:07:32 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Ben LaHaise , torvalds@transmeta.com, viro@math.psu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01051916254708.00491@starship> <20010521101451.F555@marowsky-bree.de> In-Reply-To: <20010521101451.F555@marowsky-bree.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <01052211073203.06233@starship> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 21 May 2001 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2001-05-19T16:25:47, > > Daniel Phillips said: > > How about: > > > > # mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap > > # ls /dev/mypartition > > base size device type > > # cat /dev/mypartition/size > > 1048576 > > # cat /dev/mypartition/device > > /dev/sda > > # mke2fs /dev/mypartition > > Ek. You want to run mke2fs on a _directory_ ? Could you be specific about what is wrong with that? Assuming that this device directory lives on a special purpose filesystem? > If anything, /dev/mypartition/realdev Then every fstab in the world has to change, not to mention adding verbosity to interactive commands. -- Daniel