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Cooking with Linux - The Virtual Streets of $HOME

Issue 145

From Issue #145
May 2006

Mar 30, 2006  By Marcel Gagné
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Use Linux to visit virtual consoles, cities and battle zones.
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Submitted by luke_wilson on Sun, 04/02/2006 - 05:01.

You see, what you may not know is that your system keeps track of the contents of those virtual consoles (1-6) in a special device file, /dev/sdaX
Just a little slip but /dev/sdaX refers to a scsi drive not the virtual console /dev/vcs1 mentioned previously in the article.

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Submitted by marcel on Mon, 04/17/2006 - 19:09.

Hello Luke,

Well, Sacré Bleu! I knew what I was typing before hand but another device file snuck in there accidentally. You are absolutely correct to point it out. That should have been /dev/vcsX for the virtual console device. And I thought it was such a cool trick, too . . . [ insert appropriate smiley here ].

Thanks again, and take care out there.

-- Marcel

Marcel (Writer and Free Thinker at Large) Gagné
http://www.marcelgagne.com AND www.cookingwithlinux.com

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