From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 9 04:06:29 2009 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 C11CE106566C for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:06:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EBD8FC0C for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 04:06:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n3943KgC006829 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:03:20 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from on@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.14.2/8.12.11) id n3946Rsc076562; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:06:27 +0700 (ICT) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:06:27 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200904090406.n3946Rsc076562@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: yuri@rawbw.com In-reply-to: <49DD7091.3080900@rawbw.com> (message from Yuri on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:50:41 -0700) References: <49DD7091.3080900@rawbw.com> X-Virus-Scanned: on CSIM by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device? 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: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:06:30 -0000 > And got the message: > /dev/da0 is not a block device. > Refusing to make a filesystem here! Just a wild guess, but shouldn't you create slices first? Then create the filesystem on /dev/da0s1 Bests, Olivier