Re: nasty...
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote:
> Yes, but it won't create past /dev/sd<n>15. The last time I installed
> Debian I had put 16 partitions on my brand new 9.1GB SCSI disk and then
> found I only had sda devices numbered up to 15. I read the manpage for
> /dev/MAKEDEV and found it pretty useless as well for this problem. They
> really should tell you how to do things like this, or at least have a
> more intuitive way (i.e. /dev/MAKEDEV /dev/sda16). Heh heh, some very
> interesting things happen when you try cp on a disk device (after trying
> everything else I tried copying sda15 to sda16 thinking it would just
> copy the tiny little file... very strange what starts to happen).
>
> Fortunately though it's not life-or-death that I have 16 partitions so I
> was able to just cfdisk 1 away and move on.
It may help clear things up if you look at the output from
ls -l /dev/sda16 /dev/sdb
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 May 28 1997 /dev/sda16
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 May 28 1997 /dev/sdb
Cheers,
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