From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Russ Cox" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: devices MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20020110042935.334F919A28@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:29:32 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3cac1c46-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > My quiestion is: when and how do the /dev/sd* appear in my system (standalone terminal), > or, how do I change it when new disks differently partitioned are added. The /dev/sd* get created at boot time by running disk/fdisk -p /dev/sdC0/data >/dev/sdC0/ctl (for example). It doesn't look like you have any ext2 partitions. Russ