Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:14:32 +0100 From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ad*s* devices not automatically appearing in devfs Message-ID: <48354.1045599272@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:13:05 PST." <3E5293D1.3050107@pantherdragon.org>
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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
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