Re: can mount device

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:38:07PM -0400, el kalin wrote:
> i need help with a weird thing that is happening...
> 
> i'm using netbsd on the amazon ec2 network. when i "attach" a volume to a
> machine the dmesg sees it as xbd4 but there is no /dev/xbd4* of any kind an
> i can't mount it.
> 
> what do i need to do to mount that device?

NetBSD's installation only creates device nodes for "xbd0" to "xbd3"
by default. You can create more device nodes like this:

su
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV xbd4 xbd5 xbd6 xbd7

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                 https://zhadum.org.uk/