On 26-Mar-2000 Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm trying to use mknod, but I don't know what my minor device number > is. My major device number is 45, so right now I'm using mknod like > this: mknod -m 666 syquest 45 ?. But I don't know what I should use for > my minor device number. dmesg tells the devices major number, cluster, > and nice, but not minor. Where would I find the minor number? >
also realize that MAKEDEV in the /dev hierarchy has several devices builtin. Consider looking in its help.