Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:04:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael V. Harding" <mvh@netcom.com> To: robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org Cc: bsampley@best.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code Message-ID: <199803141904.LAA26384@netcom1.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314130441.27517G-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> (message from Robert Watson on Sat, 14 Mar 1998 13:06:23 -0500 (EST)) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314130441.27517G-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>
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I and everyone I know has been bitten by ./MAKEDEV deleting existing
slices. This can make the system fail in a way that can take up to a
day of headscratching to fix. And you can't even read the man pages.
Could ./MAKEDEV make all slices by default, instead?
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 13:06:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
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On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Burton Sampley wrote:
> For anyone interested, I found a solution to the problem described below.
> I just cd'ed in /dev/ and ran ./MAKEDEV for each slice being used. I then
> modified /etc/fstab with the correct slices for each filesystem and booted
> under the new kernel. Everything has gone perfect after.
I had a similar nasty experience. It was made nastier by the fact that I
did a MAKEDEV and then booted without changing fstab -- MAKEDEV deleted my
wd0a /dev entries, putting me back in single user mode again! There seem
to be some transaction problems with the current arrangement, but they
largely have to do with slightly irregular slice configurations (such as
my config with two slices, only the a partition on the first, and a
failure to have the /dev entries).
Robert N Watson
Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/
SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/
robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/
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