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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Creating loop devices
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:53:58
Message-Id: 200610301750.37358.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Creating loop devices by "F.J.Zhao"
1 On Monday 30 October 2006 15:05, F.J.Zhao wrote:
2 > Why not to use mknod?
3 >
4 > mknod b /dev/loop0 7 0
5 > mknod b /dev/loop1 7 1
6 > mknod b /dev/loop2 7 2
7 > ...
8 > chgrp disk /dev/loop*
9
10 Because this is a udev only machine and I want udev to create the nodes.
11 If I have to, I'll put the commands in a script to run at boot time,
12 but I would rather have udev do it (as the devs intend).
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