From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 27 9:13:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E739237B630 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:13:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA41530; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:13:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:13:30 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Brad Knowles Cc: Doug Barton , Tony Maher , FreeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List Subject: Re: Accessing FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE filesystems from4.0-STABLE... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in a 4.0 kernel, teh block device doesn't exist, you always use the character device, so it was renamed so that /dev/da0s1a is teh name for the char device but if you are using a device on a 3.4 disk it refers toi the block device (which isn't in a 4.0 kernel) On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 7:33 PM -0800 2000/3/25, Doug Barton wrote: > > > 'fsck -y /dev/da0s1a' > > I had tried that already, but I'll do it again and let you see > what happens: > > $ fsck -y /dev/da0s1a > Can't open /dev/da0s1a: Invalid argument > > -- > These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy > ====================================================================== > Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV > Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 > Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels > http://www.skynet.be || Belgium > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message