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Date:      Sat, 14 Jun 1997 08:05:32 -0700
From:      Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
To:        "Patrick S. Roberts" <stormyb@izzy.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Scrogged /dev files...
Message-ID:  <3.0.2.32.19970614080532.00899b20@mail.sns.com>
In-Reply-To: <33A235D5.2C81957F@izzy.net>

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At 02:10 AM 6/14/97 -0400, Patrick S. Roberts wrote:
>Hello... I am having a problem with rebuilding my DEV dir... i ran a
>/dev/MAKEDEV all , and it seems to have scrogged my drive slice /dev
>files... i was wondering what the safest way under FreeBSD is to undo
>this ?... as it is i can mount root , and thats about it.
>
>Thanx in advance..
>
>And if you could please also tell me what the freebsd based listservers
>are i would apprecaite it.. i can't seem to find the subscribe
>accounts.....
>
>P.S. I did search the archive.. but i coul'nt find what i needed..
>--
>Patrick S. Roberts - Stormbringer
>Santa Cruz Operation

Strange you didn't find it in the archive, as I posted this same question
about 2 months ago. This is what I got in response:

>
>makedev all is deprecated and should be removed.  It goes back to 1.1.x
>days-style devices, which will cause mount to blow up.
>
>You'll have to rebuild each disk and such manually.  So walk through and
>do
>
>makedev wd0s0
>makedev wd0s1
>makedev wd0s2
>makedev wd0s3
>makedev wd1s0
>...
>
>and so forth as you require.  You should be able to do this from
>single-user mode (the 'press return for sh' prompt), if you run 'mount /'
>to get it into read/write before running makedev.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
>Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major

--Ludwig Pummer
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