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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ryan=20Baldwin?= <ryanb486@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Describing geometry of disk image file to FreeBsd
To: Ryan Baldwin <ryanb486@yahoo.co.uk>
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Alas, this time round it seems to have worked. fdisk
reports the geometry I supplied. Saddly 

mount -t ext2fs /dev/vn0s1 ./mnt 

reports 

ext2fs: /dev/vn0s1 Operation not permited

(Sigh) I suppose the 'excitement' never ends.

> --- Ryan Baldwin <ryanb486@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >
>I'm >trying to mount a ext2fs file system on the
> first
> partition of a disk image file. The problem is that
> when I use vnconfig to configure the image file as a
> 'virtual node/device?' I dont seem to be able to
> describe the geometry. It seems that with NetBsd I
> could say:
> 
> vnconfig vn0 ./theimage.img xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx
> 
> where 'xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx' would describe the geometry.
> It seems that although on FreeBsd this causes no
> errors the geometry I supply appears to be ignored
> ignored( fdisk on vn0 reports incorrect values ). 
> 
> I have spent the last couple of my evenings
> searching
> for any explantation of how this is done under
> FreeBsd
> but cant seem to find any clear explanation. The man
> pages for NetBsd seem to be a lot clearer on this
> particular subject. 
> 
> Any sugestions would be greatly appreciated.
>  Ryan
> 
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