Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:51:29 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mount error. Message-ID: <20050324185129.GB22898@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4045.216.220.59.169.1111679860.squirrel@216.220.59.169> References: <20050324083132.GA19553@thought.org> <4045.216.220.59.169.1111679860.squirrel@216.220.59.169>
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:57:40AM -0500, Ean Kingston 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"
>
> Gary, are you mounting it by hand? I wouldn't expect to see either the
> '/mntg' or the '/mnt' parts.
^^^^
typo:: should be /mnt. The error from the "3D" sysinstall script
was:
"Error mounting /mnt/dev/ad0s2e on /mnt/usr : Invalid argument"
By-hand? no. Entirely by sysinstall. Menu-driven script.
>
> > Anybody know what's causing this and how to get past this?
>
> double check to make sure your /etc/fstab is configured correctly. Make
> sure that the device (/dev/*) and the mount point (*/usr) actually exist
> before the filesystem gets mounted.
>
Surprising, the OS does boot. /bin must be there because typing
mount /usr tells me that /usr has a bad superblock.
Maybe I can create the /usr mountpoint. If I reboot from
CD everything is lost. (I didn't check if /stand got'
created.
FWIW, the strange this is: If I create a tiny /usr of,
say, 5GB, vrything is happy. Can I use /stand/sysinstall
from an already-created system to upside partitions?
The real question is: what is causing the original
"Error mounting" error?!
gary
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