Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:53:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ./MAKEDEV sd0 hosed my filesystem Message-ID: <19980305145345.35667@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95b.980304195710.58876C-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu>; from K. Marsh on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 08:02:51PM -0800 References: <Pine.A41.3.95b.980304195710.58876C-100000@goodall1.u.washington.edu>
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On Wed, 4 March 1998 at 20:02:51 -0800, K. Marsh wrote: > Hi. I really have two questions. First, I ignorantly ran MAKEDEV on my > one and only scsi hard disk, sd0. Now booting mounts only the root > partition. Is there an easy way to recover from this? Try first listing your /etc/fstab (should still work), and compare the file names there with what you have in /dev. Before you can modify things in /dev, you need to mount root read/write. Normally you do that with # mount -u / but this may not work if you've hosed the device entries. In that case, you may be a candidate for the fixit floppy. Once you have got that up and running, you should be able to remake the SCSI nodes with, say, # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV sd0 Choose the highest device number you need. > Second, what happened to the archive that holds all the stupid > questions others have asked in the past? I looked at > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr/support.html but it is no longer > there. That's a private site. It seems it's suffering from a bit of link rot. Try http://www.freebsd.org/search.html#mailinglists instead. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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