From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 5 13:52:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C381F37BEF4 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 13:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA97763; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:52:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA83983; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:51:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004052051.OAA83983@harmony.village.org> To: Brennan W Stehling Subject: Re: MAKEDEV in UPDATING Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:19:23 CDT." References: Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 14:51:19 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Brennan W Stehling writes: : I am preparing for the update from 3.3 RELEASE to 4.0 STABLE (RELENG_4) : and am a little confused by the MAKEDEV instructions. I am looking for : some clarification. : : The instructions almost look like a shell script, but I am assuming it is : just pseudocode. Is it possible to simply run the following command to : rebuild the disk /dev/entries? : : sh MAKEDEV all That's not sufficient. It is pseudo code telling you want you need to. : If not, can I limit the rebuild only the disks and slices that I am using? : I currently have a SCSI (da) and an IDE drive (wd). Yes. sh MAKEDEV all won't hurt anything. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message