From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 08:43:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1378837B401 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phys9911.phys.tue.nl (PHYS9911.phys.tue.nl [131.155.108.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B2C43FBF for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:43:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karelj@phys9911.phys.tue.nl) Received: from phys9911.phys.tue.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phys9911.phys.tue.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h67FhEJR031125 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:43:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karelj@phys9911.phys.tue.nl) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by phys9911.phys.tue.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h67FhEMk031124 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:43:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:43:14 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030707154314.GA30526@phys9911.phys.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: how to create device nodes when devfs doesn't do it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 15:43:15 -0000 Hi, After googling and searching in the mailing list archive I still can't figure out how to make device nodes in -current when devfs doesn't do this automatically. I have an external USB-drive (external 3.5" case with leftover 1.6 GB HD) from which I want to mount /dev/da0s4h. It works fine in -stable, after MAKEDEV'ing the node, but on -current I only get da0s4. My USB flash drive (Apacer Handysteno) works fine; /dev/da0s1d is created after insertion of the flash drive (I reformatted it to UFS, but it also worked with msdosfs, though slower). Using disklabel on the external USB drive shows some warnings: phys9911# disklabel da0s4 # /dev/da0s4: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 72513 63 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 b: 269892 72576 swap c: 3324825 63 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 131544 342468 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 e: 49896 474012 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 g: 716688 523908 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 h: 2084292 1240596 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 disklabel: partition c doesn't start at 0! disklabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities FWIW, this drive contains an OpenBSD 2.7 installation. All partitioning was done by the OpenBSD installer. Any suggestion? (Apart from newfs...) Karel.