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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:14:32 +0100
From:      phk@phk.freebsd.dk
To:        Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New ad*s* devices not automatically appearing in devfs 
Message-ID:  <48354.1045599272@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:13:05 PST." <3E5293D1.3050107@pantherdragon.org> 

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In message <3E5293D1.3050107@pantherdragon.org>, Darren Pilgrim writes:
>phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote:
>> In message <3E521BE1.4040501@pantherdragon.org>, Darren Pilgrim writes:
>> 
>>>When I add a new slice or partition to a disk, the device files don't
>>>automatically appear in /dev.  If I reboot, it shows up, but having to
>>>reboot twice just to add a filesystem to a running disk is absurd.  How
>>>do I make /dev automatically add these devices upon creation?  Failing
>>>that, how do I force the system to notice the new device(s) and add them
>>>to /dev?
>> 
>> 
>> Which exact commands do you use to create them ?
>
>I used sysinstall, Configure->Fdisk to (in order) delete s3, create a 
>5120m s2, then Write the changes to disk.  After exiting sysinstall:

But the changes do appear after you reboot ?

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