From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 08:44:54 2004 Return-Path: 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 4249916A4CF for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 08:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9254443D2D for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 08:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp33-50.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.33.50]) i4LFiQk2038228; Sat, 22 May 2004 01:14:28 +0930 (CST) From: Malcolm Kay Organization: at home To: Matthew Seaman , jason-dusek@uiowa.edu Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 01:14:26 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <40ADF7BB.8050403@cs.uiowa.edu> <20040521125607.GH31695@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040521125607.GH31695@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405220114.26231.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> cc: "Questions@BSD" Subject: Re: Broken Disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:44:54 -0000 On Friday 21 May 2004 22:26, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:36:11AM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote: > > I am trying to put a new disk on my system. I read the description of > > the process in FreeBSD Unleashed and apparently I misunderstood it, > > because I ended up installing a boot manager on the new disk. Now I can > > not mount it - I get error messages like: > > Presence of absence of a boot manager on the drive should make any > difference at all once the system is up and running. > > > # mount /dev/ad1e /mnt/backup > > operation not permitted > > /dev/ad1e is a very odd device name to be using. As far as I remember > that's a backwards compatability thing from changes that were made > somewhere around the FreeBSD-3.x timeframe. You probably want > /dev/ad1s1e > Yes, but at least upto FreeBSD-4.9 /dev/ad1e is understood and likely to be present. I believe it is the e-partition on the first BSD slice on the disk whatever slice that might be. The error message is not the one usually reported for a non-existant device; but when the operator has insufficient privilege. For the OP you (normally) need to be root to mount disks. Malcolm