On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, David Stern wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > I tried changing the beginning and ending cylinders, to no avail. Why > > > does mke2fs think /dev/sda16 is the entire drive? > > > > Because /dev/sda16 has major 8, minor 16, which is the major/minor pair > > for /dev/sdb: look at 'ls -l /dev/sda16 /dev/sdb'. BTW, you have > > created sda16 yourself didn't you :-) > > I created it during the install procedure manually, yes.
You created the device (with mknod), or created the partition? Do you have (as I do) /dev/sda16 = /dev/sdb /dev/sdb16 = /dev/sdc /dev/sdc16 = /dev/sdd /dev/sdd16 = /dev/sde /dev/sde16 = /dev/sdf /dev/sdf16 = /dev/sdg /dev/sdg16 = /dev/sdh -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .