From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 27 10:19:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25833 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25811 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:19:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA07703; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd007696; Mon Apr 27 17:15:29 1998 Message-ID: <3544BBEA.2781E494@whistle.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:10:02 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrzej Bialecki CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ouch... (DEVFS) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > Hi! > > Yet another minor problem: does DEVFS support vn(4) driver? I can't make > it work. > > First of all, I don't have entries for slices, i.e. I don't have > [r]vn0{a,c}. When I do 'disklabel vn0 auto' it warns me that slice is > zero-sized (or something similar), and when I read back the label it says > that c: is unused (without DEVFS it just created the slice equal to the > whole device size, and placed it under c:). Consequently, newfs'ing it > doesn't work. > > And yet another question: can I manually make device entries in /dev > (using mknod)? > > Andrzej Bialecki One point I froget to mention, you must use the -r option in disklabel with the DEVFS devices. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message