Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:04:40 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any 'elders' care to help? [Was: wd0 or wd1] Message-ID: <20000202170440.E12218@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3896A6F8.74FF93DD@ds.net>; from jmutter@ds.net on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:27:20AM -0500 References: <E3E1A9F2A227D311A1EC00902785C1084C2F3D@UTASVEXG001> <38967EDF.C54B4C51@ds.net> <20000201004941.D24609@fw.wintelcom.net> <3896A6F8.74FF93DD@ds.net>
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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
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