> I think I'm almost there, but I still have a couple questions. I made > several block-device nodes using the following commands: > > mknod /dev/pda b 45 0 > mknod /dev/pda0 b 45 0 > mknod /dev/pda1 b 45 1 > mknod /dev/pda2 b 45 2
It looks as if you did not make the node read/write I believe the defaults is owner read only. The very least is owner rw, or better yet group rw, and change the group to disk. Add any users that should use this device to group disk. > Following a reboot, just to make sure everything was fresh, I can see > the Buslink USB 80GB hard drive using > > > fdisk -l /dev/pda > > Disk /dev/pda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9729 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/pda1 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux > This looks good > This is the result after using cfdisk to create 1 ext2 partition using > all of the available disk space. No errors result from mounting this > device, but it is read only to root. Even if I mount it with a -w, it is > still read only. The other funny thing is the following > > >df -h /dev/pda* > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/pda 16G 15G 1.3G 92% > /dev/pda0 16G 15G 1.3G 92% > /dev/pda1 16G 15G 1.3G 92% > /dev/pda2 16G 15G 1.3G 92% > This looks normal. The df command when applied to a device list the size of a partion if it exists, or the size of the device if the partionion does not exist. Try it on your other hard drives. After mounting use the df command without specifying a device for a more accurate indication. As a side note the internal device name appears to have been changed from pd to ud if you are using the devfs it will auto appear as ud[1234]. > As I wrote before, I created 1 80GB partition on the drive. Since some > of these commands are new to me, I want to make sure I correctly mad the > device nodes and have not missed a step in this procedure. Please let me > know if you see where I made a mistake or what I have not done. Thanks > for all the help. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
