From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 16:51:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA21536 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:51:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from cocoa.ops.neosoft.com (root@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com [206.109.5.227]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA21527 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:51:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dbaker@localhost) by cocoa.ops.neosoft.com (8.7.3/8.6.12) id SAA00592; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:48:52 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:48:51 -0600 (CST) From: Daniel Baker X-Sender: dbaker@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com To: John Utz cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! I ate up my disk devices with MAKEDEV all! :-( In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Do a mount / in single user mode then cat /etc/fstab and cd /dev sh MAKEDEV devicenameofusr sh MAKEDEV devicenameofswap and so on. Daniel On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, John Utz wrote: > Hello; > > I ran MAKEDEV all because i foolishly thought i needed to do that > to get my sound devices. I actually just needed to run MAKEDEV pas16. > bummer! > > So, i tried to reboot the machine and got dumped into single > user. This is because my swap and other devices are gone. Where did they > go? Is this fixable? Or do i need to reinstall? ( urp!! ). My working > hypthesis is that the data is still there, but that i need to relink them > to locations that fsck and mount understand. Is this a correct assumption? > > please let me know! > > ******************************************************************************* > John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu > idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life > > Daniel Baker - Daniel@Cuckoo.COM "Uhhhhhhh, thank you, drive through please"