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- From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
- Subject: Re: Device numbers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.025017.19535@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom--posted from Andover, Mass.
- References: <1992Dec29.043931.21766@mixcom.com> <1992Dec29.163256.28668@cpp.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:50:17 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Dec29.163256.28668@cpp.uucp> root@cpp.uucp (Rich Bauer) writes:
- >Does anyone have a file or an explanation of how to fully and
- >correctly use divvy on SCO Xenix 2.3.4 GT?
- >
- >I just added a 1.2G drive and divided it into 4 file systems,
- >but when I go to look at the divvy tables using
- >
- >divvy -b36 -c36 it shows all entries for all drives.
- >
- Dunno about the divvy with Xenix 2.3.4, but SCO has had two versions I
- have dealt with.
-
- Assuming that this is your first hard disk, you have set up four xenix
- partitions, and loaded Xenix on the first:
-
- The older version divvy -b 1 -c 1 would look at the Xenix partition.
- divvy -b 1 -c 1 -v 2 would look at the second. the -v argument tells
- which partition you want to look at.
-
- I got all set to install the 2nd and 3rd partitions on my first hard
- disk when I installed (full installation) Unix 3.2v4 and discovered a
- new divvy: takes /dev/hd01 (02, 03) to look at the different partitions
- and looks at them in a different order.
-
- If you simply want to set up divisions that are already loaded, without
- doing a new mkfs on them, use divvy to name the partition, then
- P[revent] creating an fs, quit to the next menu, and I[nitialize]. After
- that, you can do a mkdev fs to set up the mount tables.
-
- I don't recall what the 3.2.4 docs said, but in that they didn't wake me
- up to the idea of a new divvy, I suspect they are as obscure as ever.
-
- The first hard disk is major device 1 for both block and character
- access. If you are adding a second disk, do a mkdev hd and look at the
- major numbers for /dev/hd10 and /dev/rhd10
- --
- Hank van Cleef vancleef@netcom.com vancleef@tmn.com Andover, Mass.
- Unix systems consultant---kernel, device drivers, networking, X11
- SysV, BSD, Sun, Ultrix, AIX, SCO. Porting a specialty.
- The Union Institute History of Science
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