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Date:      Sat, 22 May 1999 19:12:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Walter Oostendorp <walter.oostendorp@home.ict.nl>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: fixit and slices/partitions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905221911270.15248-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <37471F91.C0A8DAFF@home.ict.nl>

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On Sat, 22 May 1999, Walter Oostendorp wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> After upgrading to 3.2 Release I got into trouble and need some advice.
> The install from source seemed OK but during a second buildworld it
> rebooted and hangs for hours in checking disks, I assume.
> 
> I'm not sure because for some reason 3.2 doesn't show much on the
> console during the last stage of booting the kernel. No device probes,
> or error messages, just rattling disk noise.
> 
> I took my fixit floppy and tried to find out what was wrong. But how
> can I mount my /usr and /var ? Only the device nodes for the slices
> are present on the fixit flop. (/dev/wd0s1) Not the /dev/wd0s1e etc.
> as I expected.

It's an MFS, so you can write to it.  Just run MAKEDEV again.

./MAKEDEV wd0s1

> Fsck doesn't show any problems, but disklabel shows all zeros for the
> [fsize bsize bps/cpg] part. Is this an indication for my problem ?

Those are unused fields.

Doug White                               
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