Subject: Re: mounting non-BSD partitions.
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@blackhole.arkham.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/21/1997 23:19:24
Darren Reed drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> but /dev/dsk is messy:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          38 Feb 27 02:15 /dev/dsk/c0d0p0 -> ../../devices/isa/ata@1f0,0/cmdk@0,0:q
> 
> which is:
> brw-r-----   1 root     sys      102,464 Feb 27 12:52 cmdk@0,0:q
> and:
> crw-r-----   1 root     sys      102,464 Feb 27 12:52 cmdk@0,0:q,raw
> is for /dev/rdsk.
> 
> (the :c, :d is used by mount_pcfs and is rather ugly).

this is just standard icky Sun device naming, for example, from my sparc5:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     wheel          86 Mar 27 19:02 c0t2d0s6 -> ../../devices/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@2,0:g

so there!!!  :)

-brian

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