Thanks for the response. However, the major/minor theory still doesn't hold. According to 'man sar', 'm' is the major number of the device [correct, I agree], whereas 'n' is a distinctive number.
The distinctive number does not translate 1 to 1 with the minor number. If this were the case then when I did the following I would get a different answer... ls -l /dev/sdb ....produces 8,16 Using your theory I would expect 8,1 which would allow the device to be translated to dev8-1. However, the results are 8,16. My understanding of partitions is that sda, sdb, etc, refer to physical devices while sda1, sda2, sda3, sdb2, etc refer to partitions. Thanks, ...Robert --- Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 21:49, Robert Vaughn wrote: > > Thanks for the quick response. We had taken a > look at > > the relationship between major and minor but > dismissed > > that method based on the following. > > > > In SAR we were able to identify five devices. > > >From SAR... > > dev8-0 > > dev8-1 > > dev8-2 > > dev8-3 > > dev8-4 > > > > In IOSTAT five devices are identified, sda, sdb, > sdc, > > sdd and sde. > > >From IOSTAT... > > sda > > sda1 > > sda2 > > sda3 > > sda4 > > sda5 > > sda6 > > sda7 > > sda8 > > sdb > > sdb1 > > sdc > > sdd > > sde > > > > That's a lot more than five devices. > > I hate to throw RTFM at you, but from "man sar": > > When data is displayed, the device specification > dev m-n is generally > used ( DEV column). m is the major number of the > device, whereas n is > a distinctive number. > > So, the dev identifiers you're seeing are definitely > the major/minor > numbers of the disk devices. > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
