From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 18 11:14:47 2010 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 A88EC1065672 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:14:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms4-1.1blu.de (ms4-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADA78FC15 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [193.31.11.193] (helo=current.Sisis.de) by ms4-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1NWpZA-0006yc-D1; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:14:41 +0100 Received: from current.Sisis.de (current [127.0.0.1]) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0IAiZGD003306; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:44:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0IAiYaU003305; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:44:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: current.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:44:34 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: Bas Smeelen Message-ID: <20100118104434.GA3275@current.Sisis.de> References: <20100111123219.GA2270@current.Sisis.de> <8983DD34-2BF4-4FC9-B96F-5108E10AE9C4@goldmark.org> <4B4C20D1.3060408@ose.nl> <20100114120108.GA3815@current.Sisis.de> <4B4F10BA.2000308@ose.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B4F10BA.2000308@ose.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 193.31.11.193 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:14:47 -0000 El día Thursday, January 14, 2010 a las 01:40:26PM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: > It's only one partition. I created it with sysinstall. > > fb1:/ # fdisk /dev/da1 > ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=182401 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=182401 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 2930272002 (1430796 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 > The data for partition 2 is: > > The data for partition 3 is: > > The data for partition 4 is: > > fb1:/ # bsdlabel /dev/da1s1 > # /dev/da1s1: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 2930272002 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, > don't edit > d: 2930272002 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 I've got my device and it comes with a pre-formatted msdosfs which can be mounted with: # mount -t msdosfs -o large /dev/da0s1 /mnt # df -kh /mnt current# df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1 1.4T 115M 1.4T 0% /mnt I only want to use it as backup (created with dump(1M)) and I think it's better to make an UFS on it; matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Vote NO to EU The Lisbon Treaty: http://www.no-means-no.eu