Re: HELP! Can't mount my hard disk :-0

[Erik Chakravarty <s0452958@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Yes of course it's a block device. being silly thanks v much

is the first device on the IDE bus always major number 3? (i.e. hda)


and then the partition number would be the same as the minor number?



Thanks again, saved life.


E

Quoting Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>:

> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:13 +0100, Erik Chakravarty wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me quickly what the major and minor numbers for my
> > main ext3
> > partition should be if it's hda6? I have to create the character
> > devices so I
> > can mount the disk and sort out my kernel images.
>
> johannes:~$ ll /dev/hda6
> brw-rw----  1 root disk 3, 6 2005-05-13 16:44 /dev/hda6
>
> But its a block, not a character device.
>
> johannes
>




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