From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 12:04:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA29222 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 12:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA29211 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 12:04:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA25959; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 11:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 11:57:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Greg Haa cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding Disks In-Reply-To: <345E222D.167EB0E7@z-axis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Greg Haa wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a pentium 200 MHZ with 64 megs of RAM. > Adaptec 2940 SCSI card with 4 2 gig Hard Drives and a CD ROM drive. I > am trying to add another 4 gig hard drive with two partitions of two > gigs each. When I use the sysinstall program it allows me to partition > the disk fine. Then I go to the label editor, it allows me to create > labels on the partition but then when I try to write the changes instead > of going to the newfs part it immedeatly tries to mount and gives me the > following error message: > > Error mounting /dev/sd4s1e on /mount point : invalid argument Hm, either /dev/sd4s1e isn't proper or /"mount point" doesn't exist. :) See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ and try again. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major