On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> > # df
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/xvda1 10165048 1554800 8190820 16% /
> > /dev/xvda3 83716784 48877780 30644700 62% /home
> > tmpfs 1048664 0 1048664 0% /dev/shm
> >
> > However, it doesn't go so far as to let you access the first sector
> > of /dev/xvda
>
> Understandable but I can't help but wondering what happens if you try? :)
>
> Does it return zeros or just error out?
It doesn't create the /dev entry:
# ls -l /dev/xvda*
brw-r----- 1 root disk 202, 1 Jul 26 06:11 /dev/xvda1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 202, 2 Jul 26 06:10 /dev/xvda2
brw-r----- 1 root disk 202, 3 Jul 26 06:10 /dev/xvda3
I will try manually creating minor device 0 sometime, but not on a
production system!
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