From owner-freebsd-qa Wed Mar 21 21: 7:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1DF37B725; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:07:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2M57oh04166; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:07:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:07:50 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: jkh@FreeBSD.org Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: If sysinstall is used after boot to partition, ad0 and wd0 appear Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I run /stand/sysinstall after finishing the install and logging in as root, both ad0 and wd0 appear in the devices menu if I choose Custom -> Partition. This is potentially quite confusing, and given that our recommended path for post-install disk management is /stand/sysinstall. This appears to be the case because we continue to create all wd* devices as well as ad* devices in /dev by default. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message