From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 15:54:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14394 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:54:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14384 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:54:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15641; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:54:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:54:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Captain Jack cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ls-120 In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Captain Jack wrote: > Slightly different error now. With fdisk I first try to create a single > slice using the entire disk (I am using /stand/sysinstall). It claims to > have the following geometry: > > DISK Geometry: 963 cyls/8 heads/32 sectors = 246528 sectors > > I write the changes, and it appears to be successful (Wrote FDISK > partition information out successfully.) Next I use the disk label editor > (again through /stand/sysinstall) to create a new partition using all > 246528 blocks, and I choose File System as its type. As its mount point I > put /ls120 (an empty directory). I then select W to write my changes and > now I get a new error: > > Error mounting /dev/wfd0s1e on /ls120 : No such file or directory /ls120 doesn't exist. > newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/wfd0s1e Do you get anything out of that? It should go through a short procedure to lay out the superblocks. > I did and ls /dev/wf* and the only two entries are wfd0 and wfd0s1. What > am I doing wrong? What should the exact steps be? Hm. Do 'fdisk wfd0' and post the output. > > Hm, that's odd, if what you typed is *EXACTLY* what was displayed then > > /dev/wfd0s1e is corrupted. > > > > Try doing > > > > cd /dev > > ./MAKEDEV wfd0s1 > > > > Then try remounting the disc. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message