Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:32:30 -0800 From: Ken Ingram <kingram@ipro.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping Message-ID: <199701101925.LAA25142@ipro.com>
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When I mkdir /articles and run mount /dev/rwd2s1e /articles I get the error: '/dev/rwd2s1e on /articles: Block device required' In order for 'mount /dev/rwd2s1e /articles' to complete properly does MAKEDEV produce the BLOCK DEVICE /articles? This isn't clear from the man pages. I have to admit that before I created all this hubub I looked over the man pages for disklabel,mount,fstab,newfs and anything related without getting a good idea of what works. It seems to be a trial/error sort of thing. I've been playing dumb so as not to cause assumptions about what I know, hoping that a rank newbie attitude would help me see the answer a little more clearly. This is as opposed to my actual position in knowledge of rank amateur. Fortunately I'm not screwing up the system disk. At 06:12 PM 1/9/97 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: >In message <199701092331.PAA09721@ipro.com> Ken Ingram writes: >: The problem is I have to search through a few different things much like >: '92 when folks only had man pages. I literally don't know where to begin. >: Hence my earlier rant about 'cross referencing'. > >man fdisk To put a BIOS disk label on it. >man disklabel To put a FreeBSD disk label on it >man newfs To put file systems on the partitions created > by disklabel > >Disklabel is a horrible interface :-(. > >and you just gotta know (or look at the FAQ) that sometimes MAKEDEV is >needed. > >Warner > > --Ken ________________________________________________________________________ Ken Ingram kingram@ipro.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POST NO BILLS
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