From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 12: 2:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BD837B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:00:42 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eABK26512201; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:02:06 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Peter Cornelius Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to create /dev/X Message-ID: <20001111120206.C75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <13462.973954784@www11.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <13462.973954784@www11.gmx.net>; from pcc@gmx.net on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:59:44PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 03:59:44PM +0100, Peter Cornelius wrote: > Hi there, > > probably, this is something rather obvious, but I seemingly can't find it > on the archives. > > I have installed FreeBSD 4.1 from CD onto an IDE hard disk (there's a > Win2k and an UnixWare 7 on there, too, but I don't think that that's the > problem). > > Since there's loads of space to waste on that disk, I thought it was a > good idea to have a separate slice ^^^^^ I _think_ you mean partition. > for /, /var, /tmp, /home, /usr, /usr/local, > /usr/src, /usr/X11 (which I was to symlink to whichever version I run) and > so on. What I did not think of beforehand is that I seemingly ran out of > device nodes for /dev/ad..., so /stand/sysinstall put /dev/X (yes, a literal > 'X') into /dev/fstab which obviously causes problems. I commented out the > appropriate lines, I can boot, all seems well, but I'd really like > to 'waste' the space Hmm? You'd like to waste the space? It is being wasted now. > that's still there for /usr/X11 and /usr/src, since I set it up like > that... > > Now, here comes the question: Is there a way to get around that (Well, > obviously, I could make /usr one big slice, but besides that.)? Or, was I to > use a simple mknod with the appropriate numbers, whichever these might be...? > Or did I slam the hard limit again...? I am not entirely sure what you want to get around. If you want to get around the limitation of having eight (8) partitions, seven usable, within a slice, there is no (reasonable) way to get around it. I am not exactly sure why you would want to use so many filesytems. As you seem to realize, it is a good way to waste space but there is little advantage to breaking things up like that if everything is on one physical disk. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message