how to create device nodes when devfs doesn't do it?
Karel J. Bosschaart
K.J.Bosschaart at tue.nl
Mon Jul 7 08:43:15 PDT 2003
Hi,
After googling and searching in the mailing list archive I still can't
figure out how to make device nodes in -current when devfs doesn't do this
automatically. I have an external USB-drive (external 3.5" case with leftover
1.6 GB HD) from which I want to mount /dev/da0s4h. It works fine in -stable,
after MAKEDEV'ing the node, but on -current I only get da0s4. My USB flash
drive (Apacer Handysteno) works fine; /dev/da0s1d is created after insertion
of the flash drive (I reformatted it to UFS, but it also worked with msdosfs,
though slower).
Using disklabel on the external USB drive shows some warnings:
phys9911# disklabel da0s4
# /dev/da0s4:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 72513 63 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
b: 269892 72576 swap
c: 3324825 63 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit
d: 131544 342468 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
e: 49896 474012 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
g: 716688 523908 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
h: 2084292 1240596 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
disklabel: partition c doesn't start at 0!
disklabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit!
disklabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities
FWIW, this drive contains an OpenBSD 2.7 installation. All partitioning
was done by the OpenBSD installer.
Any suggestion? (Apart from newfs...)
Karel.
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