From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 3 22:40:50 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 38A83106564A for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:40:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8428FC0C for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:40:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-8-131.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.8.131]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D9E3CA7D; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:40:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n63MegaQ002349; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:40:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:40:42 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Drew Tomlinson Message-Id: <20090704004042.81a0d51d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4A4E807D.40007@mykitchentable.net> References: <4A4E5669.8070308@mykitchentable.net> <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de> <4A4E807D.40007@mykitchentable.net> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:40:50 -0000 On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:45 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > 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. :-) > > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. I showed it as "a:" as that's how > bsdlabel reports it when displaying the label 'bsdlabel ad6' for example. Of course you're correct: bsdlabel shows "a:". In terminology, when refering to a partition, it's usually said "partition a" or "partition ad6s1a" instead of "partition a:". The convention "a:" - "drive letters" - is very common in DOS, as well as in other "modern" MICROS~1 products. In fact, I was just joking, as when people are asking questions about a "/home folder" or "hard discs". Terminology. :-) > I think this was part of my problem. For example, I did 'bsdlabel ad6' > instead of 'bsdlabel ad6s1'. Now I have entries such as /dev/ad6s1a and > /dev/ad8s1a after using 'bsdlabel -e '. As Wojciech mentioned, the *need* to have a slice on a disk is mostly not there when you're using BSD only - there's no problem if you don't have a slice, but just one partition covering the whole disk. Then you just operate on this partition. You can even newfs the whole disk without making a partition. In this case, the c partition - "the whole disk" - is used, and you can omit the c. If you newfs ad6, you end up with a formatted ad6 partition ad6c, which is equivalent to ad6. But that's going off-topic. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...