Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:07:40 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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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,
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