Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:13:11 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: "Michael V. Harding" <mvh@netcom.com> Cc: bsampley@best.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More problems with new slice code Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314141226.27517H-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199803141904.LAA26384@netcom1.netcom.com>
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On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Michael V. Harding wrote: > I and everyone I know has been bitten by ./MAKEDEV deleting existing > slices. This can make the system fail in a way that can take up to a > day of headscratching to fix. And you can't even read the man pages. > > Could ./MAKEDEV make all slices by default, instead? Or, maybe MAKEDEV should MAKE DEVICES and not DELETE DEVICES. :) Anyone can rm a device node. But creating them requires a priori knowledge of device numbers, etc. Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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