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Date:      Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:30:31 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP / disk slicing: a MAKEDEV deficiency for slices>0 ? 
Message-ID:  <199803152330.PAA12496@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Mar 1998 00:15:25 %2B0100." <199803152315.AAA25361@marabu.marabu.ch> 

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> Note, in particular, that '(cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV all)' will not make
> the [a-h] partitions on any slices > 0.
> 
> Maybe it's time to change the line
> 
>     for slicepartname in s0h s1 s2 s3 s4
> 
> to
> 
>     for slicepartname in s0h s1h s2h s3h s4h
> 
> so that /dev/MAKEDEV makes the [a-h] /dev entries for all slices?

For whatever it's worth, slice 0 isn't actually terribly useful.  8)

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