From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 18 3:41:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8A237B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:41:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424B643F75 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F895FFE3 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:41:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id E825CAA8F for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:41:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E521BE1.4040501@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:41:21 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: New ad*s* devices not automatically appearing in devfs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I add a new slice or partition to a disk, the device files don't automatically appear in /dev. If I reboot, it shows up, but having to reboot twice just to add a filesystem to a running disk is absurd. How do I make /dev automatically add these devices upon creation? Failing that, how do I force the system to notice the new device(s) and add them to /dev? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message