[linux-lvm] Changing device numbers.

Wichert Akkerman wichert at cistron.nl
Tue Mar 13 20:17:49 UTC 2001


Previously Bas wrote:
> I want root to have major 58, minor 0 and usr major 58, minor 1. How can I
> get that done.

The first thing that comes to my mind is: why would anyone care
what the device numbers are? The whole purpose of device files,
and especially devfs, is that you can use names instead of number
and never need to care about them.

Wichert.

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