[techtalk] Major device numbers

[Nils Philippsen]

Hi Britta,

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Britta Koch wrote:

> I'm trying to create the loobback device, but don't know what major
> device number to give it. Any pointers to doc on it? There's nothing in
> the ls or mknod manpage, I'm afraid, neither does any HOWTO on my system
> sound like it has anything.

here, it's like this:

brw-rw----    1 root     disk       7,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/loop0
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       7,   1 May  5  1998 /dev/loop1
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       7,   2 May  5  1998 /dev/loop2
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       7,   3 May  5  1998 /dev/loop3
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       7,   4 May  5  1998 /dev/loop4
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       7,   5 May  5  1998 /dev/loop5
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       7,   6 May  5  1998 /dev/loop6
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       7,   7 May  5  1998 /dev/loop7

Nils
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