On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 11:29:53 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: >> FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. >> In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and >> /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names >> changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn't have >> device nodes for these devices, I was unable to remount the root file >> system, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition >> table. Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain. > > Thats the reason why I always use /dev/rwd0a etc, ie without the > slicenumbers in it, that way it will always use the FreeBSD > slice no matter what number is has gotten. Of cause that only > works if you only have one FreeBSD slice, but that is most > normal I guess...
Yup, I prefer the "compatibility slice" names too. They're not as fussy as the strict slice names, and they look less System V.4-ish. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
