Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:01:51 -0500
From: Rod Person <roddierod@hotpop.com>
To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: {solved] Problems creating a filesystem on a new SCSI drive - But raises another question.
Message-ID: <20011212230151.3dced0bc.roddierod@hotpop.com>
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After studying the output of disklabel for the new drive I tried newfs /dev/da1c and everthing worked. this leads me to this question. The handbook states the freebsd creates the e partition for non-root non-swap partitions. Since my partition came out as c, is this because I created the disk as bootable? I thought in that case freebsd would create the partition as a. It was Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:10:09 -0800 when I read this: > > dd if=/dev/zero of /dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 > > disklabel -Brw da1 auto > > Why are you making it bootable? Not sure. I was reading the handbook and this was the specific example given for adding a 2nd scsi drive. I just assumed there was some reason. > > disklable -e da1 # I didn't edit just :q out of vi > > Was there a 'e' partition at this point? No there was no e partition at this point. In fact there seemed to be no partitions created. > > newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e > > What does 'disklabel' say? here is the disklabel output for the new drive... # /dev/da1: type: SCSI disk: DEC label: RZ29B (C) DEC flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 4091 sectors/unit: 8380080 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 8380080 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4091*) > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message roddierod@yahoo.com "I'm a character in a world gone wrong!" - Entombed - Returning to Madness roddierod@hotpop.com http://storm.prohosting.com/osbeef/osbeef.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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