From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 30 9:49:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tinker.exit.com (exit-gw.power.net [207.151.46.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2439814C4A for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:49:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime.exit.com [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28685 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:49:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA48348 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:49:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <199911301749.JAA48348@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: block devices & dumpon. In-Reply-To: <38440919.3C2E1999@rtci.com> from Thomas Stromberg at "Nov 30, 1999 12:27:53 pm" To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:49:09 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: frank@exit.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas Stromberg wrote: > I thought all I needed to do was "./MAKEDEV all" in /dev after a > mergemaster (I also tried MAKEDEV drive) However, I guess this is not > the case. Evidentally if I makedev a drive or all, it does not MAKEDEV > the slices. I could of sworn it was supposed to.. alas! Learn something > new every day. Personally, I think this is a needed enhancement for MAKEDEV. IMHO, it violates the POLA that a "MAKEDEV all" doesn't make _all_ the necessary devices to run one's system. (_I_ keep forgetting, since it's usually at least months between one system install and another, and always end up having to go back and do a "MAKEDEV da0s1a" or whatever, usually in single-user mode when the system refused to mount filesystems because of missing /dev entries. Sigh.) Or at the very _least_, "MAKEDEV da1" should make the slice devs too. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message