Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:36:01 -0500 From: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> To: Colin Brace <cb@lim.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument Message-ID: <4843F741.3010304@cs.okstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <19839aceb10de69024c9fae933836067@localhost> References: <25515aa06ecb67b43d2a517bcceed88f@localhost> <20080531072955.GA76694@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <79defaf7e7f012e2cd5c6381d84dccb9@localhost> <20080531094221.GA81037@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <19839aceb10de69024c9fae933836067@localhost>
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Written by Colin Brace on 05/31/08 05:17>> > On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:42:21 +0200, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> After partitioning and labeling the disk, did you make filesystems on >> the partitions with newfs? > > Ah, no. According to Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd ed, which I have in front of me, > newfs invoked by sysinstall, which I used to create the slice and partition > it (p 241). > > Anyway, I now try running newfs in terminal, but it throws up some errrors: > > # newfs /dev/da0s1c > /dev/da0s1c: 194474.3MB (398283416 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size > 2048 > using 1059 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > newfs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 160: Invalid argument > > # newfs /dev/da0s1c > /dev/da0s1c: 194474.3MB (398283416 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size > 2048 > using 1059 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 3010976, > 3387328, 3763680, 4140032,newfs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 4516384: > Invalid argument You obviously did not really partition the slice with bsdlabel. The c partition is invalid for a filesystem. If you look at the label I'm sure you'll see that the FSTYPE field is 'unused', with a comment that reads ``"raw" part, don't edit``. You should add a partition with bsdlabel, perhaps partition 'a', with fstype 4.2BSD. You can then newfs this partition.
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