-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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: cer@nimrodel:~> 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? :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFG5s+ytTMYHG2NR9URAox6AKCZYbstDqypwVlCZBqXCDbVVydFmwCgjimS tlgewz0OnlZ4Xz4MWs57XIw= =hbND -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org