Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 18:49:01 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew <perrya@python.shoal.net.au> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Greg <dglynn@vaview7.vavu.vt.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980505184630.22583B-100000@python.shoal.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504213640.1307E-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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When you run MAKEDEV without any parameters doesn't it wipe any extra devices you've created (such as extra virtual terminals)? Just something I thought caught me out once but can't remember exactly. You can always manually remake them later anyway but if anything disappears. Andrew Perry > > >Here is a little question, I had problems with the permissions > >for files in /dev and so I thought that by running MAKEDEV it would restore > >the default permissions on the dev files that needed it but > >it turns out that now I can't mount any of the partitions on my > >hard drives. > > Are you running MAKEDEV as root? Otherwise I am not sure. > > >I was thinking of doing a 'MAKEDEV sd0' but I was not sure if it will > >match with the way I have my slices on my drives. Is this correst > >approach and should I not run just MAKEDEV without any params any more? > > This will make the sd0 special files. See 'man MAKEDEV' to discover other > unique arguments to MAKEDEV. You can run MAKEDEV without params without > trouble. > > >Also, I'm dropped to a shell during bootup and so / is mounted read-only. > > See 'man mount'. Specifically, note that you can use 'mount -u' to upgrade > a partition to read\write access. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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