From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 18:29:32 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 7AF5516A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:29:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E544D43D2D for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:29:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2OITeDa023201; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:29:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j2OITeW0023200; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:29:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:29:39 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: wizlayer Message-ID: <20050324182939.GA22898@thought.org> References: <20050324083132.GA19553@thought.org> <200503240659.56194.wizlayer@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503240659.56194.wizlayer@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount error. 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, 24 Mar 2005 18:29:32 -0000 On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:59:55AM -0500, wizlayer wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2005 03:31 am, Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > > > > Partitioning ad0s2 is fine. But I get a mount error in > > the newfs section. Specifically: > > > > "Error mounting /mntg/dev/ad0s2e on /mnt/usr : Invalid > > argument" > > > > Anybody know what's causing this and how to get past this? > > > > thanks, > > > > gary > > Hey, Gary... > > I read your last thread regarding this, and I'm curious... What's > the output when you type "fdisk ad0" at the prompt? > Can you be more specific? At which prompt? I create the ad0s2 slice below the NTFS slice, then procede to the next menu to the Disklabel editor. There I create reasonable partitions for /, SWAP, /tmp, /var, /home, and /usr. /usr is ballpark 130GB. After I select "All" from the menu below, and from the last sysinstall selection, install/newfs/<>, the script errors. So...(???) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix