Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:10:02 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ouch... (DEVFS) Message-ID: <3544BBEA.2781E494@whistle.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980427114327.18563C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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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.
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