From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 22:22:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00741 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00736 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA20924; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:22:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:22:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jay Sachs cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: moved hd from 2 to 0; /etc/fstab & partition names In-Reply-To: <87d8v1s3qd.fsf@luddite.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 19 Jan 1997, Jay Sachs wrote: > /dev/wd0b none swap sw - - > /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd0f /usr ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/wd0e /var ufs rw 1 1 > proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 > > > Things seem to be working fine. > > I just wonder if I'm asking for trouble in the future (if so, what do > I do to get the partition names in /dev?), or if having different > names matters at all. If it makes any difference, there is a DOS FAT > partition in front of the UFS partition. You should be OK, but you may not be able to mount that DOS partition if the slices don't exist. You can try remaking the devices for wd0 by doing /dev/MAKEDEV wd0 Looking at MAKEDEV, it should reconsitute your slice-notation devices. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major