Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:15:27 -0700 From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to create device nodes when devfs doesn't do it? Message-ID: <3F09AAAF.8000508@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <bec4fa$2soc$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> References: <bec4fa$2soc$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > Hi, > > After googling and searching in the mailing list archive I still can't > figure out how to make device nodes in -current when devfs doesn't do this > automatically. I have an external USB-drive (external 3.5" case with leftover > 1.6 GB HD) from which I want to mount /dev/da0s4h. It works fine in -stable, > after MAKEDEV'ing the node, but on -current I only get da0s4. Have you tried mounting da0s4h? It may show up in /dev after mounting it. > Using disklabel on the external USB drive shows some warnings: > > phys9911# disklabel da0s4 > # /dev/da0s4: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 72513 63 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > b: 269892 72576 swap > c: 3324825 63 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit > d: 131544 342468 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > e: 49896 474012 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > g: 716688 523908 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > h: 2084292 1240596 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > disklabel: partition c doesn't start at 0! > disklabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! > disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities My experience is that these warnings can be ignored as long as the drive will mount.
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