From owner-freebsd-hackers  Fri Jun 18  2:31:47 1999
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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Beware of UnixWare 7
In-Reply-To: <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jun 18, 1999  6:13:25 pm"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:29:53 +0200 (CEST)
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It seems Greg Lehey wrote:
> FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name.
> In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and
> /dev/rwd0s2e.  It was moved to partition 3, so the device names
> changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e.  Since I didn't have
> device nodes for these devices, I was unable to remount the root file
> system, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition
> table.  Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain.

Thats the reason why I always use /dev/rwd0a etc, ie without the
slicenumbers in it, that way it will always use the FreeBSD
slice no matter what number is has gotten. Of cause that only
works if you only have one FreeBSD slice, but that is most
normal I guess...

-Søren


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