From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 12:20: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579B415177 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:20:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27105; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:19:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00340; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:18:32 +0100 Message-ID: <36F6A64E.3DED5FB6@eboa.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:21:34 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have crashed, won't travel References: <19990304130126.B441@lemis.com> <36DE0352.E99BCB70@eboa.com> <19990316174710.H429@lemis.com> <36EE54A4.8DC53017@eboa.com> <19990317093436.G429@lemis.com> <36EFC56A.ACBFB0A7@eboa.com> <19990318100818.L429@lemis.com> <36F1BDBB.E9E4F323@eboa.com> <19990319150941.U429@lemis.com> <36F2ABBF.9B789EDB@eboa.com> <19990320100004.J429@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Could you run that by me again. If /dev/wd0s1g is the device holding > > the structure I need to manipulate then what is the device I should > > give as parameter to fsdb? > > /dev/rwd0s1g. Aarrgghh!! The *R*! As in 'raw device'! Of course. Sorry. Don't know why I couldn't see it or remember the difference. Just now it hit me. > Well, in fact we have a block device interface and a character device > interface, and they both talk to the same device. The difference is > that the block interface is buffered and the character interface > isn't. What's in a 'r'? That a device, by any other name, may drive as sweet. To r or not to r, that is the question! > Good point. It should refuse to do anything. When using fsdb, you > want the changes to get back to disk immediately. You're not worried > about performance. Well, at least I did *something* right :). > This is arguably a bug. /etc/termcap used to be a file, but they > moved it to /usr/share/misc for some reason. I personally didn't > agree, but it was a majority decision. To be fair, I can't see what > fsdb even needs termcap for, but I suppose I could go look. Lost call, force of habit. Something like that I'd venture. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message