Subject: Re: hosed partition table
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/23/2006 17:45:23
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:40:07PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:15:29 -0400, "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>
>wrote:
>
>
>>  $ ls -l /dev/rwd1* 
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        267324504 Oct 21 18:31 /dev/rwd1
>> crw-r-----  1 root  operator     3,      8 Oct 20 16:50 /dev/rwd1a
>
>Quite apart from anything else, note that you have a large regular file
>in /dev, rather than just devices.

yeah, I think that was a result of (just try anythin) trying to dd
the media with /dev/zero, after the partition table was hosed. Tab
completion *worked* (tm).

// George


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