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Subject:    [snide@free.fr: Re: [uml-user] Trouble creating/mounting an ext2 file system]
From:       Steve Schnepp <snide () free ! fr>
Date:       2002-11-26 16:24:04
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From: Steve Schnepp <snide@free.fr>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:50:43 +0100
Subject: Re: [uml-user] Trouble creating/mounting an ext2 file system
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:25:43PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> It is a poorly documented fact that ubd1 on the command line doesn't map
> to (98, 1) inside UML.  Instead, it maps to (98, 17) because of the 16 possible
> partitions per ubd device.
	
So, shouldn't it be better to be named : /dev/uba, /dev/ubb, /dev/ubc, etc
in order to replicate /dev/[s,h]d[a,b,c..][-,0-16] structure ? 

	Steve

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