From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 1:27:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150213D70 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 01:27:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p92.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.92]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA29498; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 04:27:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3896A6F8.74FF93DD@ds.net> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 04:27:20 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Mike Morgan , "'schwenk@math.udel.edu'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Any 'elders' care to help? [Was: wd0 or wd1] References: <38967EDF.C54B4C51@ds.net> <20000201004941.D24609@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > 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. > > I'm not sure how you arrived at this problem, however if you can > mount and fetch a recent copy of the MAKEDEV script from src/etc/MAKEDEV > you ought to be able to use it to recreate these device nodes. He got into this when he physically moved the HDD effectively changing wd1 -> wd0. He altered /etc/fstab and his kernel to reflect the changes but still had problems, that's when we noticed that the proper /dev/wd* entries were missing. I wasn't sure if it was as simple as just using MAKEDEV to add the entries. Apparently it is. I was concerned though that this might somehow corrupt the existing data on the drive. - Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message