From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 2 7:43:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B55814D2A; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 07:43:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA31820; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 02:49:20 +1100 Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 02:42:14 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Greg Lehey Cc: Thomas Stromberg , "Andrey A. Chernov" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: semi-HEADS-UP (dumpon now wants raw disk device) In-Reply-To: <19991201201641.55771@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > You must not have a very current -current :-). /dev/wd0 is a character > > device (with the same major/minor and character as /dev/rwd0) in -current: > > > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 3, 0x00010002 Dec 1 04:34 rwd0 > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 3, 0x00010002 Dec 1 04:34 wd0 > > Just doing a 'make world' won't do this; indeed, make world doesn't > even install the new ./MAKEDEV. What steps do you use to keep your > device nodes up to date? I use cp to install MAKEDEV after merging it into my version. Since I read all the diffs when I merged it, I know what changed :). I haven't actually remade all my disk devices, since that would break testing of old kernels without changing userland. I made the above devices in /dev/z to get some ls output to put in the mail. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message