Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 07:58:05 -0700 From: Gary Palmer (FreeBSD/ARM Team) <gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Fixing /dev entries (was Re: wcarchive down ) Message-ID: <24560.798562685@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Apr 95 21:41:05 %2B0800." <Pine.BSI.3.91.950422213913.15300I-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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In message <Pine.BSI.3.91.950422213913.15300I-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>, Brian Tao writes: > If someone had physical access, would the solution be as simple as >mounting the drive with the root filesystem on another FreeBSD >machine, re-doing the /dev entries and then replacing the drive? I'm >thinking ahead in case it ever happens to any of the machines here. If the /dev/*sd* entries were the only things affected, then yes. But when we ran fsck on the drive a lot of the files normally considered non-optional for a root filesystem bit the dust. It's either a complete re-install or a upgrade to 2.x I'm not sure if anyone has fgured out what exactly happened yet, I'm not at all sure and I was there watching this happen :-( Gary
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