Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-15 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:41:55AM +0100, Ashley Penney wrote: > When booting up I noticed the block device warning message. I > did some investigation and discovered that some ad4/ad5 devices > were still block ones. It seems that the MAKEDEV script only > makes up to ad3, but my disks are on

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-15 Thread Bob Bishop
At 18:12 -0600 14/4/00, Nate Williams wrote: >[...] >You can easily run out of inodes on the roof partition. Sure, my roof leaks from time to time. But _inodes_? :-) :-) -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 [EMAIL PROTECTED]fax (0118) 989 4254 between

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread Nate Williams
> > >That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made > > >the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well.. > > >_ALL_. *shrug* > > > > What do you define as `all'? Say I have a big FTP server with 8 wide > > SCSI controllers, each with 15 disks - that's d

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Fri 2000-04-14 (18:34), David Scheidt wrote: > Sure. What's the point of having both std and all, though? How much does > it hurt to have a few extra device files kicking around? 'std' is standard devices (leaving out exotic ones), and 'all' is at least one of every device out there. Neil

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread David Scheidt
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2000-Apr-14 22:49:40 +1000, Steve Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made > >the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well.. > >_ALL_. *shrug* > > What do you define

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Apr-14 22:49:40 +1000, Steve Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made >the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well.. >_ALL_. *shrug* What do you define as `all'? Say I have a big FTP server with 8 wide SC

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:41:55AM +0100, Ashley Penney wrote: > When booting up I noticed the block device warning message. I > did some investigation and discovered that some ad4/ad5 devices > were still block ones. It seems that the MAKEDEV script only > makes up to ad3, but my disks are on

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread Steve Ames
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:58:29PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2000-Apr-14 20:43:12 +1000, Ashley Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems that the MAKEDEV script only > >makes up to ad3, but my disks are on ad4/ad5 (ATA-66, Abit BP6). > > "MAKEDEV all" is designed to create a generic

Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Apr-14 20:43:12 +1000, Ashley Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that the MAKEDEV script only >makes up to ad3, but my disks are on ad4/ad5 (ATA-66, Abit BP6). "MAKEDEV all" is designed to create a generic set of devices that covers most situations. It _doesn't_ cover all sit

Problems with MAKEDEV.

2000-04-14 Thread Ashley Penney
When booting up I noticed the block device warning message. I did some investigation and discovered that some ad4/ad5 devices were still block ones. It seems that the MAKEDEV script only makes up to ad3, but my disks are on ad4/ad5 (ATA-66, Abit BP6). Simply adding ad4 ad5 onto the script fixe