Re: Help - I can't create device files.
From: Tim Bradshaw (tfb_at_cley.com)
Date: 10/28/03
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:49:40 +0000
* David Kirkby wrote:
> it reported it wanted to remove the /dev/dsk/c3* files, which I was
> using. Fearing that this would happen if the system needed a boot -r
> at some time, I felt I needed to sort it out. Anyway, I unmounted the
> file systems, run devfsadm -C and it left me with only the
> /dev/dsk/c5* files. The file systems mounted okay using them. I've
> since done a boot -r and find the system is okay. So I will remain
> using the /dev/dsk/c5*. I can live with that.
It's good that it's solved!
Can you describe what controllers are in the machine? If there aren't
as many as there are numbers, then something is causing there to be
holes in the allocation. I'm fairly sure I understand *why* this
happens - the machine is trying to `leave space' for a controller
which has been temporarily removed so when it comes back the devices
on it will have their usual names, but it's somehow got confused about
controller identities (or maybe you've genuinely unplugged some
controller and chucked it away or something!). What I can't remember
is the mechanism that does this - I found it once when something like
this happened to us, but I forgot to write it down like a fool. Does
anyone else remember how it's done?
--tim
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