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Subject: Re: cannot create partition entries for /dev/ad3 
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In message <3F825BED.8080002@ecsd.com>, ecsd writes:
>with MAKEDEV gone, the mystery is how to use devfs.
>In /dev I have ad3, but I cannot "disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1d",
>nor can I "disklabel -e /dev/ad3", and I can't determine
>what minor device numbers to assign for mknod to create
>the partition entries.

Try
	bsdlabel -w /dev/ad3

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