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diff --git a/man4/hd.4 b/man4/hd.4 deleted file mode 100644 index 995468f..0000000 --- a/man4/hd.4 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -.\" 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 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.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 . -.P -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. -.P -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. -.P -They are typically created by: -.P -.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) |