Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:49:56 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Have the device names for hard discs been changed? (fwd) Message-ID: <200601301650.16285.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060129205612.G751@sauron.bolingbroke.com> References: <20060129205612.G751@sauron.bolingbroke.com>
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--nextPart6397793.vQLJMmRt7y Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 30 January 2006 15:27, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > You start out with a disk, /dev/ad6, and you "dangerously dedicate" it, > then you _should_ have 's1' appended to /dev/ad6 to make /dev/ad6s1. But > for some reason, it's appending it to /dev/ad6c instead to make > /dev/ad6cs1, and then sysinstall tries to label the disk with /dev/ad6cs1= c, > etc, and fails. (Note the _two_ 'c' characters in that device name) > > My work around so far is after using fdisk in sysinstall to "dangerously > dedicate" my disk, I exit, then "rm /dev/ad6cs1", then go back to > sysinstall and label the disk, and then it will correctly use /dev/ad6s1. If you're using 5.x or 6.x which have devfs, it would point to a bug in geo= m=20 (or somewhere in the kernel anyway) as the device names are generated insid= e=20 the kernel. Personally I'd just stick to not using dangerously dedicated. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart6397793.vQLJMmRt7y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD3bAg5ZPcIHs/zowRApbOAKCE4afpbxFY9RtgsKUQ5RLoSlNC3gCgqtFr FC4r79M5fRp9D/ekyJIlvhU= =0PiJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6397793.vQLJMmRt7y--
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