Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:35:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: kingram@ipro.com (Ken Ingram) Cc: imp@village.org, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping Message-ID: <199701102035.NAA20496@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701101925.LAA25142@ipro.com> from "Ken Ingram" at Jan 10, 97 11:32:30 am
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> 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.
mount /dev/rwd2s1e /articles
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A raw device is a character device, not a block device.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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