update /dev files with slices

Martin Laabs martin.laabs at mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Mon Jan 21 04:36:07 PST 2008


On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:26:42 +0100, Wojciech Puchar  
<wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

>> reason - it is a test for my backup system)
>> This slices are ufs formated and gbde encrypted. However -
>> if I insert the DVD the device nodes acd0a and acd0b are not
>
> FreeBSD doesn't know that you inserted DVD until you will read it

Yes - you are right. I forgot to mention that I actually
made a read access i.e. with 'dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null bs=2k'
But this didn't solved the problem with the missing device
nodes.

Thank you,
  Martin L.


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