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In message <20030509141045.GA6835@kevad.internal>, Vallo Kallaste writes:
>On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:14:52PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp
><phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>
>> >third slice is there. The only thing missing is now /dev entry for
>> >this slice, there's no /dev/adXs3. This /dev entry will be created
>> >when I reboot the system, but that's not acceptable. Any workaround?
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I don't have time to work much on this issue, just
>> getting the kernel side and the basic tools (bsdlabel(8), sunlabel(8)
>> etc in shape takes most of the time I have.
>> 
>> Try using "bsdlabel -e" next time, it is not as hard as you might
>> fear.
>
>Ok, I'm actually not that inexperienced wrt to disklabel, as you
>might guess :) Anyway, there seems to be some misunderstanding, as I
>was talking about disk slices, not disk labels. I can't put label on
>the slice when the device node is missing in the first case.
>Bsdlabel -e is useless in this case, no? Will bsdlabel "notify" geom
>in some way about missing node so it will be created on the fly?
>Can't try it myself in the coming two days or so.

Sorry, my misunderstanding.

Anyway, for slices use "fdisk -u" and you should be good.

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