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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:22:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jay Sachs <sachs@interactive.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: moved hd from 2 to 0; /etc/fstab & partition names
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970122222137.15372M-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <87d8v1s3qd.fsf@luddite.org>

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On 19 Jan 1997, Jay Sachs wrote:

> /dev/wd0b			none		swap	sw - -
> /dev/wd0a			/		ufs	rw 1 1
> /dev/wd0f			/usr		ufs	rw 1 1
> /dev/wd0e			/var		ufs	rw 1 1
> proc				/proc		procfs	rw 0 0
> 
> 
> Things seem to be working fine.
> 
> I just wonder if I'm asking for trouble in the future (if so, what do
> I do to get the partition names in /dev?), or if having different
> names matters at all. If it makes any difference, there is a DOS FAT
> partition in front of the UFS partition.

You should be OK, but you may not be able to mount that DOS partition if
the slices don't exist.  You can try remaking the devices for wd0 by doing

/dev/MAKEDEV wd0

Looking at MAKEDEV, it should reconsitute your slice-notation devices.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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