Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:48:51 -0600 (CST) From: Daniel Baker <dbaker@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com> To: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! I ate up my disk devices with MAKEDEV all! :-( Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960213184821.238B-100000@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91l.960213160359.10777A-100000@becker2.u.washington.edu>
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Do a
mount /
in single user mode
then cat /etc/fstab
and
cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV devicenameofusr
sh MAKEDEV devicenameofswap
and so on.
Daniel
On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, John Utz wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I ran MAKEDEV all because i foolishly thought i needed to do that
> to get my sound devices. I actually just needed to run MAKEDEV pas16.
> bummer!
>
> So, i tried to reboot the machine and got dumped into single
> user. This is because my swap and other devices are gone. Where did they
> go? Is this fixable? Or do i need to reinstall? ( urp!! ). My working
> hypthesis is that the data is still there, but that i need to relink them
> to locations that fsck and mount understand. Is this a correct assumption?
>
> please let me know!
>
> *******************************************************************************
> John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu
> idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
>
>
Daniel Baker - Daniel@Cuckoo.COM
"Uhhhhhhh, thank you, drive through please"
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