From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 18:51:21 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 EBCAA16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:51:21 +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 56FB043D3F for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:51:21 +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 j2OIpUKa023325; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:51:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j2OIpT9B023324; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:51:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:51:29 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Ean Kingston Message-ID: <20050324185129.GB22898@thought.org> References: <20050324083132.GA19553@thought.org> <4045.216.220.59.169.1111679860.squirrel@216.220.59.169> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4045.216.220.59.169.1111679860.squirrel@216.220.59.169> 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: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List 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 18:51:22 -0000 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix