On Jan 15, Charles M. Hannum wrote
> If you did, then it should be obvious that the (old, which I
> pointed out in text you didn't quote) MAKEDEV just wrote a `32-bit'
> device node using the old major and minor number.  (So it's now
> pointing to the wrong disk device.  When I run newfs(8), it blows away
> my other disk.)
> 

If we renumber the majors (which I think should be done at the same time),
it's likely that the nodes created don't point to a disk driver any more
(or at last it should be made so). So you don't trash your disk, but your
machine will not reboot. 

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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