From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-53983-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1GeZSX-00023X-Iz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:53:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UFpSkC023227; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:51:28 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UFnIew030003 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:49:20 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2DE8346D for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:56:34 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jGMB9PNHY-gn for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:56:27 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D6083472 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:56:27 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:51:05 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Creating loop devices Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:50:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610301454.48014.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <b3a9d00b0610300505s6530a25ej61420598bc2bb6d3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b3a9d00b0610300505s6530a25ej61420598bc2bb6d3@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610301750.37358.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2006 15:51:05.0468 (UTC) FILETIME=[355523C0:01C6FC3B] X-Archives-Salt: 825dc46d-b1e5-446d-8f24-53f1c759a32b X-Archives-Hash: 83fcb586292d0a550a3bb1c4394b0aad On Monday 30 October 2006 15:05, F.J.Zhao wrote: > Why not to use mknod? > > mknod b /dev/loop0 7 0 > mknod b /dev/loop1 7 1 > mknod b /dev/loop2 7 2 > ... > chgrp disk /dev/loop* Because this is a udev only machine and I want udev to create the nodes. If I have to, I'll put the commands in a script to run at boot time, but I would rather have udev do it (as the devs intend). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list