From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 2:34:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CCC14C9C; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA09051; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:03:50 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id TAA03377; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:03:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:03:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Soren Schmidt Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beware of UnixWare 7 Message-ID: <19990618190347.G2863@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com> <199906180929.LAA31388@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199906180929.LAA31388@freebsd.dk>; from Soren Schmidt on Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 11:29:53AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 11:29:53 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: >> FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. >> In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and >> /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names >> changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn't have >> device nodes for these devices, I was unable to remount the root file >> system, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition >> table. Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain. > > Thats the reason why I always use /dev/rwd0a etc, ie without the > slicenumbers in it, that way it will always use the FreeBSD > slice no matter what number is has gotten. Of cause that only > works if you only have one FreeBSD slice, but that is most > normal I guess... Yup, I prefer the "compatibility slice" names too. They're not as fussy as the strict slice names, and they look less System V.4-ish. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message