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Date:      Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:59:44 +0100 (MET)
From:      Peter Cornelius <pcc@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Unable to create /dev/X
Message-ID:  <13462.973954784@www11.gmx.net>

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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 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 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...?

Thanks for bearing with me,

Best regards,

Peter.

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Peter Cornelius                                         <pcc@gmx.de>

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