From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 19:02:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA23954 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 19:02:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA23944 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 19:02:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15360(1)>; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 19:01:56 PST Received: by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21787; Mon, 1 Jan 96 22:02:08 EST Message-Id: <9601020302.AA21787@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: minor numbers on ide disks? Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 19:02:07 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I want to swap on to wd0s6 (an extended partition) shown as: wd0s1: type 0x6, start 63, end = 1137023, size 1136961 : OK wd0s2: type 0x5, start 1137024, end = 1753919, size 616896 : OK wd0s3: type 0xa5, start 1753920, end = 2261951, size 508032 : OK wd0s5: type 0x83, start 1137087, end = 1447487, size 310401 : OK 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 are brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 131074 Dec 29 20:18 /dev/wd0s1 brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 196610 Dec 29 20:18 /dev/wd0s2 brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 262146 Dec 29 20:19 /dev/wd0s3 brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 262144 Dec 29 20:19 /dev/wd0s3a brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 262145 Dec 29 20:19 /dev/wd0s3b brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 262146 Dec 29 20:19 /dev/wd0s3c brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 262147 Dec 29 20:19 /dev/wd0s3d brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 262148 Dec 29 20:19 /dev/wd0s3e brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 262149 Dec 29 20:19 /dev/wd0s3f brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 262150 Dec 29 20:19 /dev/wd0s3g brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 262151 Dec 29 20:19 /dev/wd0s3h brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 327682 Dec 29 20:18 /dev/wd0s4 bash$ dmesg | grep wd0 wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): Happy new year... marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001