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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: default scsi disk devices Date: 9 Aug 1996 06:50:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4uen44$2mm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4uceo0$s77@mark.ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien) wrote: > I noticed when I installed 2.1.5-RELEASE that it doesn't have any > partition in slice devices names for scsi disks in /dev: > > relay:~> ls /dev/sd*s* > /dev/sd0s1 /dev/sd0s4 /dev/sd1s3 /dev/sd2s2 /dev/sd3s1 /dev/sd3s4 > /dev/sd0s2 /dev/sd1s1 /dev/sd1s4 /dev/sd2s3 /dev/sd3s2 > /dev/sd0s3 /dev/sd1s2 /dev/sd2s1 /dev/sd2s4 /dev/sd3s3 > > Shouldn't there be things like /dev/sd0s1e so I don't have to do an > explicit MAKEDEV to get it? 4 default disks * 5 default slices (compat + 4 named) * 8 default partitions ==> would make 160 i-nodes where you typically use less than 10 of them. Since with the same right people could demand to get 27 instead of only 5 slices... you get the picture. The installation program creates the slice and partition entries for those disks that are present at install time. You are responsible yourself for your additions. With the upcoming DEVFS, this should become a moot point at some day in the future. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)