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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: David Larkin <David.Larkin@djl.co.uk>
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	Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>,
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Subject: Re: mounting old filesystem - Re: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs 
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On Wed, 10 May 2000 17:05:06 +0100, David Larkin wrote:

> What I want to do is try and mount my old /usr partition
> and hopefully recover some files.
> 
> I was hoping to do something like
> 
> mount /dev/wd1s1f /mnt
> 
> but /dev/wd1s1f does not exist

Does wd1s1f exist?  You probably just have to create the device nodes in
the /dev directory.

> I guess I need to do 'newfs' or something similar, but
> the man page is a little cryptic.

Oh, I wouldn't do that.  The newfs(8) utility will create a new
filesystem, overwriting whatever was there before. :-)

Try this:

	cd /dev
	./MAKEDEV wd1s1f

:-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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