From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 14:57:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from babel.acu.edu (babel.acu.edu [150.252.167.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38DC937B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:57:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scattered@localhost) by babel.acu.edu (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA25271 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:48:48 -0600 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:48:48 -0600 (CST) From: Cary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: disklabel/newfs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've read both man pages but they don't explain what to do when you get an error message. Hopefully one of you "old-hands" will be kind enough to explain what I'm doing wrong. The drive is a SCSI magneto-optical drive at /dev/da0, the MO disks are 128MB a piece, formerly with ext2 formats. I can read the disk label with: # disklabel -r /dev/da0 under disktab, I have created my own entry called ro3012e, with the drive parameters. so when I say: # disklabel -w da0 ro3012e disklabel: No space left on device # disklabel -w /dev/da0 ro3012e disklabel: Operation not supported by device After trying several variations of the above, I then try: # newfs da0 newfs: da0: `0' partition is unavailable # newfs /dev/da0 newfs: /dev/da0: `0' partition is unavailable # newfs -T ro3012e /dev/da0 newfs: /dev/da0: `0' partition is unavailable # newfs -T ro3012e /dev/da0a newfs: /dev/da0a: Invalid argument # newfs -T ro3012e /dev/da0c write error: 247807 newfs: wtfs: Invalid argument # What do these errors mean, especially the last one? What am I missing? Thank you in advance for any help offered! Cary Mathews Abilene Christian University ACM Education Comittee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message