Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code in userspace

Lars Marowsky-Bree
2001-05-21T08:15:23Z

On 2001-05-19T16:25:47,
Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> 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 <lmb@suse.de>

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