From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 22:20:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA01902 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 22:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01867 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 22:20:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA03467; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:10:59 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601020440.PAA03467@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: minor numbers on ide disks? To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:10:58 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601020302.AA21787@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Jan 1, 96 07:02:07 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Marty Leisner stands accused of saying: > > I want to swap on to wd0s6 (an extended partition) shown as: > wd0: type 0x5, start 1447488, end = 1511999, size 64512 : OK > wd0s6: type 0x82, start 1447551, end = 1511999, size 64449 : OK > > > How do I construct a device to support this...the standard devices # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV wd0s6a Should do the trick, then # swapon /dev/wd0s6c > Happy new year... Likewise! > marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[