Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:20:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Mark J. Miller" <mjmiller@uclink4.berkeley.edu> To: Otter <otterr@telocity.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: formatting a slice for msdos Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103241951170.84683-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <000501c0b4d9$e2616330$1401a8c0@zoso>
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Otter wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>Go fire up /stand/sysinstall. Let the menu guide you until you learn
>the command line tools.
sysinstall doesn't help, and doesn't tell me what it's doing. Here's what
the fdisk tool in it reports:
DISK Geometry: 784 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 12594960 sectors
Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 3068352 3068414 ad0s1 2 fat 6
3068415 9526545 12594959 ad0s2 3 freebsd 165 C
The disk label tool reports this:
Disk: ad0 Partition name: ad0s2 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Part Mount Size Newfs Part
---- ----- ---- ----- ----
ad0s1 <none> 1498MB DOS
ad0s2a <none> 50MB *
ad0s2b swap 260MB SWAP
ad0s2e <none> 20MB *
ad0s2f <none> 4320MB *
Using the commands 'n' (newfs options) or 't' are forbidden for slice 1.
Mounting /dev/ad0s1 reveals that the partition size is only 50M, rather
than 1.5 Gigs:
% df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s2a 49583 35117 10500 77% /
/dev/ad0s2f 4287581 3103516 841059 79% /usr
/dev/ad0s2e 19815 6844 11386 38% /var
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
/dev/ad0s1 49583 28265 17352 62% /msdos
I should note that I'm doing this from the default run level; I'm not sure
how to get to singe user mode.
Thanks
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