From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 20:24:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23281 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:24:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23179 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:23:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12056; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:53:45 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA00968; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:53:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980305145345.35667@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 14:53:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "K. Marsh" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ./MAKEDEV sd0 hosed my filesystem References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from K. Marsh on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 08:02:51PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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