From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 23 6:28:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bsd1.gccs.com.au (router.gccs.com.au [203.17.152.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9BB14D18 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 06:28:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from starr3@gccs.com.au) Received: from lb50x (lb50x.gccs.com.au [203.17.152.10]) by bsd1.gccs.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA90343 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 23:28:46 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <006901bea520$1b41dbb0$0a9811cb@gccs.com.au> From: "Harry Starr" To: "current" Subject: disk slices and MAKEDEV confusion Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 23:28:12 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am confused! The /boot/loader is "announcing" that it wants the root device to be "da0s1a". It appears that the "normal" fstab entries want "sliced" versions as well, eg. # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 SO! Why does "sh MAKEDEV all" NOT make the partition entries for the slice(s) ??? ie, "sh MAKEDEV all" only makes the "compatability" slice entries -- da0s1, da0s2 etc. It requires a "sh MAKEDEV da0s1a" to get the slice/partition entries. I checked on the "standard" entries in "disc2" of the "release" cds (/R/cdrom/disc2/dev) and the partition entries are not there either for the "da" and "wd" entries. Have I totally lost the plot on device naming.....??? Harry. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message