From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 8: 8:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED544081 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:08:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat40.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.232]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id SAA24175 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:08:05 +0200 Received: (qmail 13412 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Feb 2000 15:04:40 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:04:40 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "James A. Mutter" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any 'elders' care to help? [Was: wd0 or wd1] Message-ID: <20000202170440.E12218@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <38967EDF.C54B4C51@ds.net> <20000201004941.D24609@fw.wintelcom.net> <3896A6F8.74FF93DD@ds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3896A6F8.74FF93DD@ds.net>; from jmutter@ds.net on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:27:20AM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:27:20AM -0500, James A. Mutter wrote: > > > > I'm not sure how you arrived at this problem, however if you > > can mount and fetch a recent copy of the MAKEDEV script from > > src/etc/MAKEDEV you ought to be able to use it to recreate these > > device nodes. > > He got into this when he physically moved the HDD effectively changing > wd1 -> wd0. He altered /etc/fstab and his kernel to reflect the > changes but still had problems, that's when we noticed that the proper > /dev/wd* entries were missing. I wasn't sure if it was as simple > as just using MAKEDEV to add the entries. Apparently it is. I was > concerned though that this might somehow corrupt the existing data on > the drive. Fear not. MAKEDEV's only job is to create (with mknod) the proper device nodes. Any path through the MAKEDEV sources, should ultimately lead to a few mknod invocations. Nothing more dangerous. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message