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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:48:51 -0600 (CST)
From:      Daniel Baker <dbaker@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com>
To:        John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HELP! I ate up my disk devices with MAKEDEV all! :-(
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960213184821.238B-100000@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91l.960213160359.10777A-100000@becker2.u.washington.edu>

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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"




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