Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:29:55 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: Ken Ingram <kingram@ipro.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970110122815.12973c-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199701101925.LAA25142@ipro.com>
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On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Ken Ingram wrote: > When I mkdir /articles and run mount /dev/rwd2s1e /articles I get the error: > > '/dev/rwd2s1e on /articles: Block device required' > > In order for 'mount /dev/rwd2s1e /articles' to complete properly does MAKEDEV > produce the BLOCK DEVICE /articles? This isn't clear from the man pages. do a `cd /dev;sh MAKEDEV wd2s1e'... basicly /dev/wd2s1e is missing... the r means raw in that no buffering is done... with out the r it is a block device and buffering is done... hope this helps... ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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