Re: Confusion over device major:minor numbering...
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In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980128125434.14499A-100000@dwarf.polaris.net>,
dwarf@polaris.net (Dale Scheetz) writes:
> I have been looking at the devices in /dev with the hope of understanding
> what drivers I have on my machine. I have been under the (mistaken?)
> understanding that major:minor numbers were supposed to be unique for each
> device, yet this doesn't seem to be the case. For instance:
>
> 1:1 belongs to both /dev/mem and /dev/ram1
> 1:2 belongs to both /dev/kmem and /dev/ram2
> :
> :
> 1:7 belongs to both /dev/full and dev/ram7
>
/dev/mem is a character device and /dev/ram1 is a block device:
0 crw-rw---- 1 root kmem 1, 1 Jan 9 1997 /dev/mem
^
0 brw-r----- 1 root disk 1, 1 Dec 31 1969 /dev/ram1
^
Same thing for the others.
> A different type of the same class of confusion stems from:
>
> 8:16 is used by both /dev/sda16 and /dev/sdb
>
I have no /dev/sda16 or anyother /dev/sd?16
Erv
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