From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 14:52:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E033616A4CE; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:52:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF7843D53; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:52:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j23Epbj16985; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:51:37 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200503031451.j23Epbj16985@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: zettel@acm.org (Leonard Zettel) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:51:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200503021317.13502.zettel@acm.org> from "Leonard Zettel" at Mar 02, 2005 01:17:13 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Jerry McAllister cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: restore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:52:23 -0000 > > > > Next, why did you try and mount /dev/ad0s1a and then newfs /dev/ad0s1a > > > > That should not work at all. You don't newfs a mounted partition. > > > > > > Gee, I didn't know that. It wasn't clear when I read the handbook > > > or man pages. May give me something new to try-- > > > > That is probably your main problem. > > > Doing the newfs on the unmounted partition worked the way I > expected it to. > Once more, thanks to all. Good that it now works. It is often some minor seeming thing that looms large when it is not right. ////jerry > -LenZ- >