From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 11:52:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9017837B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:52:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF0B643F75 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:52:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1044647550.0a669f@mired.org) Received: (qmail 50277 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2003 19:52:30 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 2 Feb 2003 19:52:30 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15933.30462.77008.33453@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:52:30 -0600 To: brent@kearneys.ca Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: filesystem disappeared following 4.2 -> 4.7 upgrade In-Reply-To: <20030202191806.GA14696@kearneys.ca> References: <20030202185009.GA14514@kearneys.ca> <20030202185916.GA14615@kearneys.ca> <20030202191806.GA14696@kearneys.ca> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030202191806.GA14696@kearneys.ca>, Brent Kearney typed: > No /dev/ad5s1, etc., and `mount /dev/ad5s1 /home` produces only: > > mount: /dev/ad5s1: No such file or directory > > > Do I need to make device nodes for the ad5s1 partition? I'm not sure how, > if so. Yes, you need to make device nodes. Try: # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV ad5s1c Or s1a, or whatever you were using. The reason ad0 turned into ad5 is that ata disk devices are now numbered statically instead of dynamically. This is a good thing. While it does mean that your drives move when you upgrade the OS this one time, it also means that they won't move when you add a drive to the system. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message