Mounting a Tape Drive

[Stuart Sears]

On Saturday 18 Sep 2004 12:45, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:41:22AM -0700, Celine Neo wrote:
>    mknod tape c 37 0

> One of the difficult things on Unix/Linux systems has always been to
> determine that major/minor device number pair.  To make this easier,
> the MAKEDEV script was created.  It's stored in the /dev directory, and
> basically will figure out for you what the major and minor devices for
> given devices are on your system.  To really understand this command,
> read the man page--"man MAKEDEV".
jumping in late on this one ... :-)
if you want a definitive list of the device types and major/minor numbers that 
apply to them , you can install the kernel-source rpm for your current kernel 
version and read
/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/devices.txt
there no longer appears to be a specific kernel-doc rpm.

HTH

Stuart

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Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX
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