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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man4/hd.4 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man4/hd.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4f91c6b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man4/hd.4 @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), +.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 16:56:20 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> +.\" Modified Mon Oct 21 21:38:51 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> +.\" (and some more by aeb) +.\" +.TH hd 4 2023-02-05 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +hd \- MFM/IDE hard disk devices +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B hd* +devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives +in raw mode. +The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major device +number 3) is +.BR hda ; +the slave drive is +.BR hdb . +The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) +is +.B hdc +and the slave is +.BR hdd . +.PP +General IDE block device names have the form +.BI hd X\c +, or +.BI hd XP\c +, where +.I X +is a letter denoting the physical drive, and +.I P +is a number denoting the partition on that physical drive. +The first form, +.BI hd X\c +, is used to address the whole drive. +Partition numbers are assigned in the order the partitions +are discovered, and only nonempty, nonextended partitions +get a number. +However, partition numbers 1\[en]4 are given to the +four partitions described in the MBR (the "primary" partitions), +regardless of whether they are unused or extended. +Thus, the first logical partition will be +.BI hd X 5\c +\&. +Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported. +You can have at most 63 partitions on an IDE disk. +.PP +For example, +.I /dev/hda +refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and +.I /dev/hdb3 +refers to the third DOS "primary" partition on the second one. +.PP +They are typically created by: +.PP +.in +4n +.EX +mknod \-m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0 +mknod \-m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1 +mknod \-m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2 +\&... +mknod \-m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8 +mknod \-m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64 +mknod \-m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65 +mknod \-m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66 +\&... +mknod \-m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72 +chown root:disk /dev/hd* +.EE +.in +.SH FILES +.I /dev/hd* +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR chown (1), +.BR mknod (1), +.BR sd (4), +.BR mount (8) |