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SubjectRe: devfs howto
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Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> said:
> Khimenko Victor writes:

[...]

> > Uhh. I asked MUCH simplier question: why devices are named
> > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
> > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
> > but on bootup you'll see:
> > -- cut --
> > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35841015 [17500 MB] [17.5 G
> B]
> > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
> > -- cut --
> >
> > Of course it's just cosmetic but IMHO better to use partX in all
> > places or pX in old places to avaoid confusions...

> Having "partX" in the partition table scan may make it too long. The
> reason the devfs names are not "pX" is because Linus wanted a longer
> name. I'd be quite happy to shorten them.

Current IDE disk partitions are show as something like: 1 2 3 4 <5 6 7 8>
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