Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:29:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beware of UnixWare 7 Message-ID: <199906180929.LAA31388@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jun 18, 1999 6:13:25 pm"
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It seems Greg Lehey wrote: > FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. > In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and > /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names > changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn't have > device nodes for these devices, I was unable to remount the root file > system, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition > table. Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain. Thats the reason why I always use /dev/rwd0a etc, ie without the slicenumbers in it, that way it will always use the FreeBSD slice no matter what number is has gotten. Of cause that only works if you only have one FreeBSD slice, but that is most normal I guess... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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