From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 3 20:16:02 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 09D461065679 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:16:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0598FC12 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:16:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MMpAm-0001TH-L9; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:16:00 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.238]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MMpAl-0001lR-Ji; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:15:52 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n63KFosx016110; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 21:15:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n63KFo5S016109; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 21:15:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 21:15:50 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090703201550.GA16090@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <4A4E5669.8070308@mykitchentable.net> <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Drew Tomlinson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev? 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: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:16:02 -0000 On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:04:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > Next I used bsdlabel > > and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). > ^ > There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon > is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS diskette drive. :-) > > > > > However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such > > as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do > > the get them to show after I've labeled? > > If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a > slice on those disks, instead you created one partition (a) on > each of the disks. > > If you are a lazy guy (as I am), then use sysinstall to create the > slices and the partition. Choose "standard MBR" after the slice > editor and go ahead with the partition editor. why not give gpart(8) a go? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423