Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 20:04:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Kallen <spidaman@well.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding disks and the disklabel question Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960728194301.12520A-100000@well> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728160612.226A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> I mailed my procedure a dozen times:
>
> disklabel -Brw sd1 auto
<really? that'll do it? let's see...>
root:ns1: {31} disklabel -Brw sd1 auto
write: Read-only file system
<OK, let's try to explicitly label the raw device>
root:ns1: {32} disklabel -Brw /dev/rsd1 auto
"auto" requires the usage of a canonical disk name.
auto: unknown disk type
<sigh>
<OK, there's a dos stub slice (sd1s0) and a type "165" on slice 1... try it>
root:ns1: {33} disklabel -Brw sd1s1 auto
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
<and similar failures trying to reference it as a raw device...>
> disklabel -e sd1 # edit partitions
> for filesys in `get file system partitions of sd1`
> do
> newfs -d0 /dev/rsd1${filesys}
> done
> vi /etc/fstab
>
> This creates ``dangerously dedicated'' drives (thus no `fdisk'
> required), as long as this is fine with you, the above is perhaps the
> easiest way.
I would be most pleased to see this "easiest way" succeed. If you are
getting different results than the ones I pasted in above, I sure would
like to know why...
>
> > Sysinstall still core dumps when I try and usr it to partition and and
> > disklabel the second drive.
sysinstall seems to want to make mods to my existing boot drive -- it all
seems geared for installation not supplementing disks and file systems.
> This is a quickie. I have the long explanation of this from Seppo if you
> are interested.
>
> If I had a disk to make, I'd write a tutorial.
I'd be happy to document for the benefit of others how to make this work
if I could do so myself. Although the machines I'm using are in
production (thus I don't have a lot of latitude for experimentation) --
I'm open to doing whatever it takes to document this more fully and have
it added to handbook and/or FAQ (short of frying my disks ;).
>
> Doug White | University of Oregon
> Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
The next interface will not be another desktop metaphor.... Ian Kallen ....
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