Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 09:51:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: gcrutchr@nightflight.com (Gary Crutcher) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199512240851.JAA29832@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512232023.MAA00354@nightflight.com> from "Gary Crutcher" at Dec 23, 95 12:23:12 pm
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As Gary Crutcher wrote: > > I just installed a 2nd SCSI drive. A 2.1GB conner. > Having read many of the newsgroups info about adding a second drive and > reading amilfrom this listserv, I have partitioned the drive, labeled it, > but cannot get the newfs command to work correectly - I get 'not a block > device' error. Hmm, you should better fully quote the message you've got. Newfs doesn't even want to operate on the block device, and it warns you if you are trying this: newfs: /dev/fd0: not a character-special device So: use newfs always on character-special devices. You can distinguish them from the block-device counterparts by the leading `r' (for `raw'). In my above example, the corresponding character device would be ``/dev/rfd0''. At the opposite, _mounting a file system_ (once newfs was successful) _requires_ the block device (and is almost the only operation that should use block devices at all). So i would have to mount: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt as opposed to: uriah # /sbin/mount /dev/rfd0 /mnt /dev/rfd0 on /mnt: Block device required -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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