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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
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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
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