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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!netcom.net.uk!nntpfeed.doc.ic.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!njl2!long From: long@njl2.materials.ox.ac.uk (Neil J Long) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: More partitions than default devices? Date: 19 Apr 1997 15:42:19 GMT Organization: Department of Materials, University of Oxford Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5jap4r$32@news.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: njl2.materials.ox.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39347 Hi What is the 'correct' way to add more partitions on a scsi disk? The MAKEDEV in 2.2-stable limits it to 4 for sd, e.g. ll sd0s?e brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 0x00020004 Feb 24 13:04 sd0s1e brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 0x00030004 Feb 24 13:04 sd0s2e brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 0x00040004 Feb 24 13:04 sd0s3e brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 0x00050004 Feb 24 13:04 sd0s4e How safe is it to modify MAKEDEV or should additional devices be made using mknod or should this be put in MAKEDEV.local? 4 seems a little small for big scsi disks as a default these days. I am only asking as having cvsup'd for a while I haven't done a fresh install which of course may now use a different MAKEDEV?? Cheers Neil -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Neil J Long, Department of Materials, University of Oxford * Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK * EMail: Neil.Long@materials.oxford.ac.uk * Tel: +44 (0)1865-273678 Fax: +44 (0)1865-273789