From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 14 21:47:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CDE16A41F for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:47:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from cobalt.antimatter.net (cobalt.antimatter.net [69.55.224.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2807F43D46 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:47:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from glenn-mobile.antimatter.net (cpe-66-27-86-22.san.res.rr.com [66.27.86.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by cobalt.antimatter.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7ELlaEO003505 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:47:37 -0700 Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.2.20050814142804.05ba9a50@cobalt.antimatter.net> X-Sender: lists@cobalt.antimatter.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:48:19 -0700 To: "Joachim Dagerot" , questions@freebsd.org From: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <200508142116.j7ELGRQN016019@amail1.space2u.com> References: <200508142116.j7ELGRQN016019@amail1.space2u.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: Mounting on da0s1c or da0s1d? 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: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:47:42 -0000 At 02:16 PM 8/14/2005, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > >From my Vinum period I recall that mounting should be done on d, not c > or whatever it was. Today I'm running a hardware IDE RAID and though I > read the handbook I can't find any recommendation on where to mount. > >Any help is appreciated. The 'c' partition represents the entire disk (or slice), if you're creating a partition to cover the entire disk/slice you can use 'c' but certain utilities will complain. If you label the disk, and then examine the resulting label, you'll typically have an 'a' partition and a 'c' partition. The 'a' partition will default to the whole disk. Something like this: test54# bsdlabel /dev/ad6 # /dev/ad6: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 156301472 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 c: 156301488 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit You can newfs the 'a' partition and you're all set. If you want to have more than one partition on that disk/slice, then you'll have to create the others yourself. -Glenn >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"