From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 11:25:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA27208 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipro.com (farad.ipro.com [204.179.121.96]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA27200 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:25:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipro.ipro.com by ipro.com (8.7.4/SMI-SVR4) id LAA25142; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:25:08 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701101925.LAA25142@ipro.com> X-Sender: kingram@ipro.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:32:30 -0800 To: Warner Losh From: Ken Ingram Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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