[Summary] How to find major/minor device number?

From: Xavier Mertens <xavier_at_bru-noc.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 06:31:50 +0100 (CET)

Hi,

Thanks to all who replied!

The major/minor values are right!
But in Tru64 5.1, /dev/MAKEDEV is not used in the same way as on other unix systems.
Special files are made by cfsmgr (extensive man page).

Xavier

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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Xavier wrote:
> 
> HI,
> 
> I know this is maybe an basic question but, how do I find the major/minor
> device number used by, for example, /dev/disk/dsk31c ?
> 
> 'ls -l /dev/disk/dsk31' gives:
> 
> brw-------   1 root     system    19,599 Jan 16 12:19 /dev/disk/dsk31c
> 
> Is it "19" and "599" ? I cant't find any relation in /dev/MAKEDEV!
> 
> Xavier
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Received on Thu Jan 17 2002 - 05:32:03 NZDT