Hi
From following output what is major and minor (numbers) indicate ?
why major is always 8 ?
# raw -a
/dev/raw/raw1: bound to major 8, minor 17
/dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 8, minor 33
/dev/raw/raw3: bound to major 8, minor 49
/dev/raw/raw4: bound to major 8, minor 65
/dev/raw/raw5: bound to major 8, minor 81
/dev/raw/raw6: bound to major 8, minor 97
# ls -l /dev/* |grep '8, 17'
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 17 Aug 28 13:39 /dev/sdb1
# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 92274688 sda
8 1 10755486 sda1
8 2 25599577 sda2
8 3 25599577 sda3
8 4 1 sda4
8 5 5116671 sda5
8 6 5116671 sda6
8 7 20081218 sda7
8 16 20971520 sdb
8 17 20964824 sdb1
8 32 20971520 sdc
8 33 20964793 sdc1
8 48 20971520 sdd
8 49 20964793 sdd1
8 64 20971520 sde
8 65 20964793 sde1
8 80 20971520 sdf
8 81 20964793 sdf1
8 96 20971520 sdg
8 97 20964793 sdg1
Distro is : Oracle linux 5.5
Thanks