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authorMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>1996-09-17 18:28:52 +0000
committerMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>1996-09-17 18:28:52 +0000
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@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ Say `./MAKEDEV dev1 dev2 dev3 ...'.
Supported devices are:
o any hard disk device you have; you must specify both unit number *and*
- partition. Something like `sd0a' or `rd1f' is called for. Unit
+ partition. Something like `sd0a' or `hd1f' is called for. Unit
number without any partition names the entire disk. (SETUP has
already created a device for the entire disk holding your boot
block, if you gave it that information.)
@@ -223,25 +223,20 @@ nameserver to work properly.
You can mount a partition (say hd0a) by saying:
- settrans /mnt /hurd/ufs /dev/rhd0a
+ settrans /mnt /hurd/ufs /dev/hd0a
-The name `/dev/rhd0a' must have been created using `./MAKEDEV hd0a' in
+The name `/dev/hd0a' must have been created using `./MAKEDEV hd0a' in
the /dev directory.
(This is equivalent to Unixy `mount /dev/hd0a /mnt'.)
-
-(Note that you are using the *RAW* device here. In theory, it's
-irrelevant [and this is really only being used to get a name in a
-clever but strange way], but there are minor bugs in the non-raw
-versions, so don't try and use them.)
If it's a Linux ext2 format disk, just do
- settrans /mnt /hurd/ext2fs /dev/rhd0a
+ settrans /mnt /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd0a
You can make it readonly thus:
- settrans /mnt /hurd/ufs -r /dev/rhd0a
+ settrans /mnt /hurd/ufs -r /dev/hd0a
For more information on settrans, see the end of this file.
@@ -261,7 +256,7 @@ automatically fscked, you'll have to make entries in /etc/fstab (see
A temporary mount (which lasts only until the filesystem program is
killed or the system is rebooted) can be accomplished by giving the -a
-option to settrans thus: `settrans -a /mnt /hurd/ufs /dev/rsd0a'.
+option to settrans thus: `settrans -a /mnt /hurd/ufs /dev/sd0a'.
(Note the placement of this option, as an arg to settrans, is
different from the -r options you might give to the filesystem.)
`showtrans' does not display these temporary mounts.