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On Monday 21 May 2001 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2001-05-19T16:25:47, > > Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> said: > > How about: > > > > # mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap > > # ls /dev/mypartition > > base size device type > > # cat /dev/mypartition/size > > 1048576 > > # cat /dev/mypartition/device > > /dev/sda > > # mke2fs /dev/mypartition > > Ek. You want to run mke2fs on a _directory_ ? Could you be specific about what is wrong with that? Assuming that this device directory lives on a special purpose filesystem? > If anything, /dev/mypartition/realdev Then every fstab in the world has to change, not to mention adding verbosity to interactive commands. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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