On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:07:17PM -0400, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> mv /etc/path_to_inst to /etc/path_to_inst20050621
> reboot -- -ras
> rebuild path_to_inst
> 

I forgot to suggest that a reboot might not be needed.
Probably the following would have the same effect

  devfsadm -c tape

The -c option is not needed, just limits devfsadm's scan.

And probably the obsolete "tapes" command would work too.

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