Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:59:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: ecsd <ecsd@ecsd.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no partition entries for /dev/ad3 Message-ID: <20031008125501.D63940@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <3F83EAF5.4030301@ecsd.com> References: <3F83DB69.907@ecsd.com> <20031008114254.E63940@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20031008121500.U63940@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <3F83EAF5.4030301@ecsd.com>
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ecsd wrote: e>Harti Brandt wrote: e>On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ecsd wrote: e>e>I had already been able to go so far as to "disklabel -w -r ad3 auto". e>e>After doing this on a 4.X system I would then "disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1c" e>e>but /dev/ad3s1c does not exist, so I am stuck. e>e>Maybe there is a "rescan devices" command? e> e>e> fdisk thinks it has no work to do. e> e>In that case you should have a /dev/ad3s1. Have you? e>harti e> e>The chronology is that I booted the system, did the disklabel -w -r ad3 e>auto, e>turned around to disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1c (as I would normally do), and e>was told that /dev/ad3s1c did not exist. Then I wrote in here asking for e>help. e>ad3s1c does not exist. If I understand correctly disklabel -e ad3 auto will create you partitions without creating slices. You should get /dev/ad3c and this will cover the entire disk (though I don't know if this is really supported). Normally you should put slices onto your disk and disklabel the slices. Given that you have a correct fdisk label you should have the slice entries /dev/ad3s[1-4]. Then you can disklabel the slices: 'disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1 auto'. ad3s1c of course does not exist if you don't have labeled the slice. You must label the slice (da3s1), not a partition thereof (da3s1c). harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org
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