From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 18 12:14:37 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 7267A37B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:14:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7BB43F3F for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:14:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1IKEX6E079946; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:14:33 GMT (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1IKEWOx048355; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:14:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ad*s* devices not automatically appearing in devfs From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:13:05 PST." <3E5293D1.3050107@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:14:32 +0100 Message-ID: <48354.1045599272@critter.freebsd.dk> 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 In message <3E5293D1.3050107@pantherdragon.org>, Darren Pilgrim writes: >phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: >> In message <3E521BE1.4040501@pantherdragon.org>, Darren Pilgrim writes: >> >>>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? >> >> >> Which exact commands do you use to create them ? > >I used sysinstall, Configure->Fdisk to (in order) delete s3, create a >5120m s2, then Write the changes to disk. After exiting sysinstall: But the changes do appear after you reboot ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message