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Date:      Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:27:27 -0800
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any 'elders' care to help?  [Was:  wd0 or wd1]
Message-ID:  <389698EF.3A65F4E9@nwlink.com>
References:  <E3E1A9F2A227D311A1EC00902785C1084C2F3D@UTASVEXG001> <38967EDF.C54B4C51@ds.net>

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I'm certainly no elder, but can't you just remake all devices with
./MAKEDEV all ?


> > I did not change anything in /dev per your warning.
> >
> > I've booted in single user but when i try to fsck -p it tells me:
> > Can't stat /dev/wd0s1a: No such file or directory
> > I'm also unable to mount any disks.
> >
> > I did check on the existence of wd0s*, but they do not exist.  What i
> > do have is
> >
> > wd0s1 and rwd0s1
> > wd1s1a thru h, and rwd1s1a thru h
> >
> > does wd0s1a thru h and rwd0s1a thru h need to be created somehow?
> 
> Ok.  At this point you need to end up the following devices:
>   rwd0s1a .. rwd0s1h
>   wd0s1a  .. wd0s1h
> 
> Problem is that I'm not the one to tell you how to create them.  Under
> other circumstances I might suggest using 'mknod' to accomplish this but
> something tells me it's going to be a bit more complicated this time.
> You _might_ be able to do this with disklabel or sysinstall but I can't
> promise you that they won't destroy the existing data.   At this point
> you need the assistance of one of the group elders.
> 
> Good luck though and let me know how it works out.
> 
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