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SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:44:38PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >Of course not. Here's one line of bash that gets you the major:minor
> >file of every block device in the system:
> > block_devices="$(echo /sys/block/*/dev /sys/block/*/*/dev)"
> >
> When was that added? /sys/block/hdc/device/ only has "power", "block",
> "bus" and "driver" here on a 2.6.13-rc3.

True, that's why my above "echo" didn't point to "device" but "dev".
"device" is a symlink to the device that the block device is attached
to. "dev" is the major:minor number of this specific block device.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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