From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 06:31:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA15151 for current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:31:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from bobcat.cs.duke.edu (bobcat.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.36]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA15140 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from snow.cs.duke.edu (snow [152.3.145.23]) by bobcat.cs.duke.edu (8.8.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA31612 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:31:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by snow.cs.duke.edu (8.8.4/8.7.3) id JAA24436; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:31:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:31:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701141431.JAA24436@snow.cs.duke.edu> From: Andrew Gallatin To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: minor suggestion for 2.2 boot/fixit.flp Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As the subject says, I have a minor suggestion for the 2.2 boot/fixit floppies -- It would be really nice to have the block and character devices files for the at least the partitions in the second slice of sd0 & wd0 in /dev on the boot floppy (and maybe sd1 & wd1, and all 4 slices on each disk if there is room). In the last six months or so, I've had to recover two disks on dual boot machines from catastrophic failures. In both cases (hardware failure & a filesystem eaten by a client mounting an msdosfs rw against my advice) I've managed to recover most of the data off the disks since only the root partition was trashed. But when booting from boot.flp, I've had to manually mknod the device files I've needed, which is a bit of a pain. Not to mention that it might be a showstopper for somebody who didn't have another machine to check for the major/minor numbers and/or who was clueless enough not to know how to make device files. Thanks, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin Duke University Internet: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590