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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:10:58 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: minor numbers on ide disks?
Message-ID:  <199601020440.PAA03467@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <9601020302.AA21787@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Jan 1, 96 07:02:07 pm

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Marty Leisner stands accused of saying:
> 
> I want to swap on to wd0s6 (an extended partition) shown as:
> wd0<extended>: type 0x5, start 1447488, end = 1511999, size 64512 : OK
> wd0s6: type 0x82, start 1447551, end = 1511999, size 64449 : OK
> 
> 
> How do I construct a device to support this...the standard devices

# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV wd0s6a

Should do the trick, then 

# swapon /dev/wd0s6c

> Happy new year...

Likewise!

> marty		leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com   

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