From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mechanism to bind partitions in /dev?
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:17:19 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJQxxwkT8Sy_PbaQuh+A=FSei=yfMTXn74Qhwcezndeh3aph7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <725B0528-2ACD-49BF-B09C-8A0625C89080@fb.com>
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disk/prep (and it's mates) are what you need for sdC0. man 8 prep.
brucee
On 18 January 2014 17:57, Yoann Padioleau <pad@fb.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone explain how the partitions in /dev/sdC0/xxx are populated? Who
> create those device files? I have a small plan9 kernel running a small
> shell (sh.Z)
> in memory and when I do 'bind #S/sdC0 /dev/' I just see the 'data',
> 'ctl', and 'raw' files.
> There is no 9fat or plan9 or whatever partitions there is on this disk. In
> fact I've
> tried to make on MACos via the Utility disk some fat images and when I do
> qemu -hdb dosdisk.img I can not access again the fat partition on this disk
> (I've tried dossrv and then mount /srv/dos/ /mnt #sdC1/data but it does
> not work).
> I can access it though when it's on a floppy disk (mount /srv/dos /mnt
> /dev/fd0disk
> works). How fd0disk is different from #sdC1/data?
>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 6:57 Yoann Padioleau
2014-01-18 7:17 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2014-01-18 22:34 ` Yoann Padioleau
2014-01-18 19:33 ` Steven Stallion
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