Date: 12 Apr 2006 07:18:59 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Oliver Iberien <oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall won't write fs to new disk, bad magic number Message-ID: <44mzerdot8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200604102018.57042.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> References: <200604102018.57042.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net>
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Oliver Iberien <oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> writes: > There was a thread about this a while ago, but it did not seem to end in a > solution... In any case, I have a 160GB Seagate drive that I was trying to > mount a partition on as /disk2. I went through the instructions in the > Handbook under "Formatting Media for Use With FreeBSD." No formatting seemed > to be happening, though. When I added it to fstab, something in KDE found it > and then failed to open it. mount shows that it has not been mounted, and if > I try to mount it: > > bsd# mount -u /dev/ad1s2c /disk2 > mount: /dev/ad1s2c on /disk2: specified device does not match mounted device > bsd# mount /dev/ad1s2c /disk2 > mount: /dev/ad1s2c: Input/output error > > I looked at the previous thread and then tried: > > bsd# newfs /dev/ad1s2c > /dev/ad1s2c: 52627.0MB (107780084 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size > 2048 > using 287 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 3010976, > ... > 107260480, 107636832 > cg 0: bad magic number > > I had two partitions on it, one to be used for linux later on. I tried > swapping them out, but no difference. > > This drive worked under linux. Any ideas? Sounds like you didn't write a disklabel on it. That's covered in the tutorial you mentioned...
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