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Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 18:49:01 +1000 (EST)
From: Andrew <perrya@python.shoal.net.au>
To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
cc: Greg <dglynn@vaview7.vavu.vt.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: MAKEDEV...
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When you run MAKEDEV without any parameters doesn't it wipe any extra
devices you've created (such as extra virtual terminals)? Just something I
thought caught me out once but can't remember exactly. You can always
manually remake them later anyway but if anything disappears.

Andrew Perry

> 
> >Here is a little question, I had problems with the permissions
> >for files in /dev and so I thought that by running MAKEDEV it would restore
> >the default permissions on the dev files that needed it but
> >it turns out that now I can't mount any of the partitions on my
> >hard drives. 
> 
> Are you running MAKEDEV as root? Otherwise I am not sure.
> 
> >I was thinking of doing a 'MAKEDEV sd0' but I was not sure if it will
> >match with the way I have my slices on my drives.  Is this correst
> >approach and should I not run just MAKEDEV without any params any more? 
> 
> This will make the sd0 special files. See 'man MAKEDEV' to discover other
> unique arguments to MAKEDEV. You can run MAKEDEV without params without
> trouble.
> 
> >Also, I'm dropped to a shell during bootup and so / is mounted read-only.
> 
> See 'man mount'. Specifically, note that you can use 'mount -u' to upgrade
> a partition to read\write access.
> 


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