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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: misc/2470: "sh ./MAKEDEV all" can't generate disk slice device.
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> > 	I get src only, "make world", copy $(SRC)/etc/etc.i386/MAKEDEV
> > 	to /dev/MAKEDEV and "sh ./MAKEDEV all".
> > 	it removes all disk device nodes and can't generate disk partition
> > 	such as sd0s1e. So I lost all disk partitions.
> > 	"sh ./MAKEDEV sd0" can't generate disk partition, I must do
> > 	"sh ./MAKEDEV sd0s1".
> 
> That's intentional.  It would be blatant to create device nodes
> for 30 slices per disk.

But it shouldn't remove device nodes that it doesn't re-create.

Also, MAKEDEV "all" should create something closer to all devices.  One
for each major at least.

Bruce