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From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] partition question
Date: Tue,  1 Feb 2005 14:44:23 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0502011439290.23562@malasada.lava.net> (raw)

Hi,
    I noticed the sd device (devsd, '#s') doesnt probe for partitions
itself, but relies on an external source for partitions.  Commands like
disk/prep -p and disk/fdisk -p can probe the disk to generate the commands
sd needs to populate the tables.  The /rc/bin/termrc has such fdisk and
prep commands.  What is confusing to me though is that I cant find a
similar instance for cpurc.  How are these tables populated in the cpu
case (9load through the getconf call that devsd makes?)?  Pointers to
where in the code to look would be appreciated.

Tim N.


             reply	other threads:[~2005-02-02  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-02  0:44 Tim Newsham [this message]
2005-02-02 10:44 ` Richard Miller
2005-02-02 13:46 ` Russ Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-14  9:07 [9fans] Partition question Jeremy English

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