> Alistair Riddell:
>
> ... /dev/hda12 can be mounted but is not a partition of /dev/hda ...
Eh? I said:
> extended partition (hda1). The kernel fails to report the existence of
> hda12 at boot time, as does fdisk. However the partition can be mounted
> and unmounted without any problems.
hda12 is definitely a partition of /dev/hda...
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> And what does ls -l /dev/hda12 say?
> Is your /dev/hda12 on some other disk?
frank:~> ls -l /dev/hda*
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 0 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 1 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 10 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda10
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 11 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda11
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 12 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda12
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 13 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda13
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 14 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda14
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 15 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda15
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 16 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda16
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 2 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda2
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 3 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda3
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 4 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda4
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 5 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda5
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 6 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda6
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 7 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda7
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 8 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda8
brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 9 Apr 28 1995 /dev/hda9
-- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Support Department, George Watson's College, Edinburgh Tel: +44 131 447 7931 Ext 176 Fax: +44 131 452 8594