From 364bc46a35579df6f96523306ab90b3b9c3ee2bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:47:41 +0000 Subject: Noted that makedev will create more harddisk partition device files than you can actually use due to kernel limitations git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@225 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/makedev-inst.xml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'chapter06') diff --git a/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml b/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml index a4e4d0433..59d385c9b 100644 --- a/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml @@ -23,5 +23,11 @@ hdc to create the generic set of devices files, plus the files you need to be able to access hdc (and hdc1, hdc2, etc) + +MAKEDEV will create hda[1-20] and hdb[1-20] and such but keep in mind +that you may not be able to use all of those devices due to kernel +limitations regarding the max. number of partitions. + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf