From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 24 18:57: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from soda.csua.berkeley.edu (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41B337B71D for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:56:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjmiller@uclink4.berkeley.edu) Received: from localhost (mjm@localhost) by soda.csua.berkeley.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2P2uv480414 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:56:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjmiller@uclink4.berkeley.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: soda.csua.berkeley.edu: mjm owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:56:57 -0800 (PST) From: X-X-Sender: To: Subject: formatting a slice for msdos 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 Hi When I installed FreeBSD for the first time I set aside a slice for use with windows, thinking I'd set up a dual boot system. As it turns out after about three months I'm finding decidedly little to miss about windows, but I'd like to use that space, preferably as a FAT partition, "just in case." I'm a little new to disk formatting and partitioning w/ BSD, so I'm not sure what information to include here. Also, I'm a little unclear on the nomenclature-- I'm assuming "slice" == "partition", but the whole disklabel concept is a tad confusing. What I understand about my setup is that I have 3 primary slices: the boot manager in the zeroth one, the FAT fs in the first (dev/ad0s1), and FreeBSD native (165) in the second (/dev/ad0s2). Currently, I'm using slice 2 exclusively: %more /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s2b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s2f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s2e /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cd cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/acd1c /cdr cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 The problem is that I screwed up at some point, and slice 1 has a filesystem on it, but I'm not sure what type. It turns out that I somehow installed a seperate kernel on slice 1 in january, and that it has its own partitions. However, the data there is not important and I can certainly live without it. What I'd like is to have a FAT slice here, with only 1 partition, primarily for storing MP3s and such. I tried "newfs_msdos /dev/ad0s1", but that gave me: /dev/ad0s1: 3062336 sectors in 382792 FAT32 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster) bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=63 hds=255 hid=63 bsec=3068352 bspf=2991 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=2 newfs_msdos: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only file system Any advice appreciated. Thanks Mark PS- I tried to subscribe to this mailing list a few weeks ago, and majordomo said that I had to be authorized by someone before I could join. Any ideas why this would happen? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message