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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:13:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Tony Maher <Tony.Maher@eBioinformatics.com>, FreeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Accessing FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE filesystems from4.0-STABLE...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003270911480.40800-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <v04220813b505390df5d0@[195.238.1.121]>

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in a 4.0 kernel, teh block device doesn't exist, you always use the
character device,
so it was renamed so that /dev/da0s1a is teh name for the char device
but if you are using a device on a 3.4 disk it refers toi the block device
(which isn't in a 4.0 kernel)



On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 7:33 PM -0800 2000/3/25, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> >  	'fsck -y /dev/da0s1a'
> 
> 	I had tried that already, but I'll do it again and let you see 
> what happens:
> 
> 		$ fsck -y /dev/da0s1a
> 		Can't open /dev/da0s1a: Invalid argument
> 
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