From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 16:59:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1DB37B424 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 16:59:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9F1AF6ACBE; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:29:14 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:29:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Rolf Edwards Cc: doug@polands.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel with 5 or 6 scsi drives Message-ID: <20010509092914.J68969@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010508085454.01da6508@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010508085454.01da6508@127.0.0.1>; from redwards@meccamediagroup.com on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:59:04AM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 8 May 2001 at 8:59:04 -0600, Rolf Edwards wrote: > I have been attempting to use vinum with 6 scsi drives, and have > been unable to disklabel the 5 (da4) and 6 (da5) drives. > > I can create the partitions as freebsd type, but they do not show up in > disklabel, only c is shown. The freebsd partitions mounted just fine. I > attempted to save the disklabels as a temp file, edit them and use a > disklabel -R to write them back. It did not work, as the operation was not > permitted. > > I removed some of the drives and was able to edit the disklabel, and things > looked good, but when the other drives were re-attached, the label didn't > show the e partition anymore. What is going on? Who knows? You haven't shown the output you got. But I'd guess you don't have device nodes for the drives. You also haven't said whether you're using the compatibility partition or a slice. You should check for /dev/da5e and /dev/da5s1e (depending) and create them with MAKEDEV if you don't already have them. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message