Problems in /dev: not enough md devices
 

I don't know what's going on.
I have to build a soft raid system on a computer, I have the following problem:
In the /dev there is only one md0 nod, and no more (md1,2... etc)
It's only in the new slackware 10, with the same kernel, on my old slackware 9.1 system I have a lot of /dev entries, from md0 to md9.

My best guess is, that the new slackware has got some function, to remove the unused entries in the /dev... other devices (hda, sda... ) has also only a few entries, in the 9.1 I have dozen of them (hda1...19, etc). Maybe somehing to do with the udev?

Can anyone please help me?

If you're not running devfs, then you can create more devices using the MAKEDEV script, which is usually installed in /dev/. Firstly, find it with: Then you should be able to do etc. to make the other raid devices. (You may need to read the MAKEDEV man-page or the script itself to find the best commands to use).

Hope that helps,

— Robert J. Lee

Thank you for the help, it was a good starting point.
I did the following (if anyone will suffer from this):
- There was no MAKEDEV at all, though I had the devfs package, the reinstall of the package will help
- I have disabled the udev startup (rc.udev), and a lot of entries in /dev was there.
- I wanted to try the makedev anyway, it seemed to be more elegant, so I re-enabled the rc.udev script.
- But the entries remained there.
So you can do two thing:
- use the makedev as it was described by rjlee above
- disable the rc.udev script for one boot. (yet it needs more check if it will remain in this state)