Re: Have the device names for hard discs been changed? (fwd)



On Monday 30 January 2006 15:27, Ken Bolingbroke wrote:
> You start out with a disk, /dev/ad6, and you "dangerously dedicate" it,
> then you _should_ have 's1' appended to /dev/ad6 to make /dev/ad6s1. But
> for some reason, it's appending it to /dev/ad6c instead to make
> /dev/ad6cs1, and then sysinstall tries to label the disk with /dev/ad6cs1c,
> etc, and fails. (Note the _two_ 'c' characters in that device name)
>
> My work around so far is after using fdisk in sysinstall to "dangerously
> dedicate" my disk, I exit, then "rm /dev/ad6cs1", then go back to
> sysinstall and label the disk, and then it will correctly use /dev/ad6s1.

If you're using 5.x or 6.x which have devfs, it would point to a bug in geom
(or somewhere in the kernel anyway) as the device names are generated inside
the kernel.

Personally I'd just stick to not using dangerously dedicated.

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