From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 04:15:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 04:15:13 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:23812 "HELO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 04:15:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:14:51 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Daniel Phillips Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Ben LaHaise , torvalds@transmeta.com, viro@math.psu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code in userspace Message-ID: <20010521101451.F555@marowsky-bree.de> In-Reply-To: <01051916254708.00491@starship> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.3i In-Reply-To: <01051916254708.00491@starship>; from "Daniel Phillips" on 2001-05-19T16:25:47 X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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_ ? If anything, /dev/mypartition/realdev Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. -- J. Yahl