From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 24 13:28:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA01013 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from send1a.yahoomail.com (send1a.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA01007 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgireyev@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19971224212802.2973.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Received: from [206.175.225.81] by send1a; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:28:01 PST Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 13:28:01 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev Subject: Re: problem To: Triztan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---Triztan wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a problem regarding FreeBSD, and I don't really know who I should > ask... You've come to the right place! > > now...the problem: > it seems as if the device files for my harddrive are lost...so now, I can > only get readonly(don't know why this works) If the device drivers were truly lost, you would not be able to read, or even boot the drive. rights to my harddrive, and > therefor I can't make new ones, so I wonder what I can do to solve this... Are you familiar with owner/group/all permission settings in UNIX. Try to su to superuser and see if you can write to those files. > > /triztan > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com