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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding disk - missing device files for partitions? Date: 20 Jun 1997 06:54:05 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5od9ed$594@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33A9B761.937@xs4all.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43224 Marlen Wernecke <marlen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > How can I create the missing device files ( /dev/wd0s1e and > /dev/wd0s1f) manually (not with sysinstall!) ? Should I use > MAKEDEV or mknod,... One of them. MAKEDEV just calls mknod, it's only that it has preconfigured knowledge about major and minor numbers. cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wd0s1a should probably solve your problem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)