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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:45:51 -0500
From:      Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        <beauford.2002@rogers.com>, "'Giorgos Keramidas'" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Newbie Question
Message-ID:  <20020319024551.C0896BA05@i8k.babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <001d01c1cfca$b688b300$6401a8c0@p1>
References:  <001d01c1cfca$b688b300$6401a8c0@p1>

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On Tuesday 19 March 2002 11:50 pm, Beauford wrote:
| This is the site I read and is what I did, but still no go. I did it
| again and tried to manually mount the drive and get "incorrect
| superblock". I am using wd1s1e for the drive designation. So maybe my
| problem is something else. Any suggestions?

For the name of the drive, check "dmesg."

Then

newfs /dev/<whatever the name is>
and then mount it.

|
| Thanks
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr]
| Sent: March 17, 2002 8:00 PM
| To: Beauford
| Cc: FreeBSD
| Subject: Re: Newbie Question
|
| On 2002-03-18 22:34, Beauford wrote:
| > I should probably be able to find this, but It is escaping me right
| > now. I just added another drive to my existing FreeBSD box and went
| > into /stand/sysinstall and fdisked and labelled the drive
| > appropriately, but how do I format it and get it mounted (actually,
| > mounting is not a problem, but what is the drive called? My first
| > drive is ad0s1a).
|
| You'll find a wealth of information about this in the FreeBSD.org
| article "Formatting Media for use with FreeBSD".  Find it online at:
|
|   http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/
|
| Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
| keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
|
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