From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 21:37:39 2003 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 83D0F37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:37:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B155243E4A for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 21:37:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0745551971; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:07:31 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:07:31 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Pete Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel? Message-ID: <20030203053730.GI11468@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 2 February 2003 at 13:50:20 -0500, Pete wrote: > Hello... I have three hard drives in my system. One of them (the first) > is the system disk. I'm trying to get the other two ready to be a > mirrored volume. No matter which of the last two drives is last, that > one always is listed as "amnesiac" when I do a disklabel on it: > > ============================== > [root@archive 13:44:07 root]# disklabel ar2 > # /dev/ar2: > type: unknown > disk: amnesiac > label: fictitious > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 63 > tracks/cylinder: 255 > sectors/cylinder: 16065 > cylinders: 3737 > sectors/unit: 60036417 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds > drivedata: 0 The only valid information above this point are the geometry specifications, and even they are not very valid. > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 60036417 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 3737*) > ============================== > > What does this mean? Whichever drive is last, that's the one I cannot > "disklabel -e" to set its fstype to "vinum". There must be some other reason for that. Do you have any disk label at all? Otherwise use the /stand/sysinstall partition editor to create a partition. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message