From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 12:30:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF841065671 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:30:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from snow.mountains.4@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC9C8FC1D for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:30:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from snow.mountains.4@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1533127ele.12 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:30:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=M1uHJaEnhnAs3iQC0vWOfnWzJu+t8ed56TUseI4FPa8=; b=wbQsMJLyzKNs/qE4hGAPDvegDV8ZFmpAg3V8ss2+xtqdex6nEnYFfMHmgoRLB57pizrDcgY3e1lFXxdiI1FbHyfXrkCHHwzMh1TIX+LAVCR10clwR2HOX2u9LiXzg08vrz/Ks2d4msL6/rxkdc/xD7aCBMvuUCYmEkObdDaq8rk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IW2H7SrqF4U9IRJpBz9vhwR9r80lBbfKaGOG4WOQTf0Jy1oNbdv5qs26pUvOltSzsDh1cbOx468cc7QRdgYF2ZprQ9WNNfq8BXr5QPeos3CutbymSuherLJZVu4lq+HF7C30nQ9WjQgG0VQ1WGlteRuIlmSt8G6Rx22dgVIiEXo= Received: by 10.142.49.4 with SMTP id w4mr3282780wfw.57.1205325035480; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.165.3 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:30:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3cf9f8920803120530k7f6420bfl5aa203864c058c90@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:30:34 +0100 From: "Snow Mountains" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <444pbcdvwj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3cf9f8920803101018i573a5c26l986b9508495fcd5a@mail.gmail.com> <444pbcdvwj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org Subject: Re: no ad1s3a,b,d... on ad1s3 after bsdlabel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:30:41 -0000 2008/3/12, Lowell Gilbert : > "Snow Mountains" writes: > > > I try to understand bsdlabel. > > I have former fat slice (ad1s3) on my disk and I want to make several > > BSD partitions on it. I did this: > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1s3 bs=1k count=1024 > > 1024+0 records in > > 1024+0 records out > > 1048576 bytes transferred in 0.318986 secs (3287217 bytes/sec) > > # bsdlabel -w ad1s3 > > # bsdlabel -e ad1s3 > > (edit) > > # bsdlabel ad1s3 > > # /dev/ad1s3: > > 8 partitions: > > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > > a: 10000000 16 4.2BSD 0 0 0 > > b: 10000000 10000016 4.2BSD 0 0 0 > > c: 47616660 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit > > d: 27616644 20000016 4.2BSD 0 0 0 > > # newfs -U /dev/ad1s3a > > newfs: /dev/ad1s3a: could not find special device > > # ls /dev/ad1s3* > > /dev/ad1s3 > > # > > > > What I miss because I don't have ad1s3a,b,d? > > If repeat same procedure on disk (big file) mounted as /dev/md0, a see > > /dev/md0,a,b,d,e... after this group of commands. > > > On what version of FreeBSD? > This happens on: # uname -r 6.2-RELEASE-p11 SergiM