Adding /dev/sd5?

2007-02-08 Thread Jeff Ross
Hi, I got to add 2 more hard drives to a server I manage (dmesg below) sd4 showed up no problem, but /dev/sd5 doesn't exist. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jross $ sudo fdisk -i sd5 Password: fdisk: sd5: No such file or directory Any gotchas on adding the other sd device? Should this be something

Re: Adding /dev/sd5?

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Hessler
cd /dev; sh ./MAKEDEV sd5 sd0 - sd4 are created by the installer, others need to be created by you. On 2007 Feb 08 (Thu) at 09:33:27 -0700 (-0700), Jeff Ross wrote: :Hi, : :I got to add 2 more hard drives to a server I manage (dmesg below) : :sd4 showed up no problem, but /dev/sd5 doesn't

Re: Adding /dev/sd5?

2007-02-08 Thread Mike Erdely
Jeff Ross wrote: Any gotchas on adding the other sd device? Should this be something that is added to MAKEDEV? While there is no real sd5 on my machine and I didn't check beforehand to see if sd5 existed, this worked for me: cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV sd5 -ME

Re: Adding /dev/sd5?

2007-02-08 Thread Nickolay A. Burkov
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi, I got to add 2 more hard drives to a server I manage (dmesg below) sd4 showed up no problem, but /dev/sd5 doesn't exist. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jross $ sudo fdisk -i sd5 Password: fdisk: sd5: No such file or directory

Re: Adding /dev/sd5?

2007-02-08 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jross $ sudo fdisk -i sd5 Password: fdisk: sd5: No such file or directory sudo sh /dev/MAKEDEV sd5

Re: Adding /dev/sd5?

2007-02-08 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote: Any gotchas on adding the other sd device? Should this be something that is added to MAKEDEV? gotcha wise, if you MAKEDEV a pseudo device beyond a count that is allocated in kernel config, that's probably bad. ( eg, trying to

Re: Adding /dev/sd5?

2007-02-08 Thread Jeff Ross
A bunch of you wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jross $ sudo fdisk -i sd5 Password: fdisk: sd5: No such file or directory sudo sh /dev/MAKEDEV sd5 !DSPAM:45cb6947220471234514069! Thanks to all who replied! Jeff