From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 04:12:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBEC916A4B3 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 04:12:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de (mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3E743FBD for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 04:12:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100])h98BCpS28831; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:12:51 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:12:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt To: ecsd In-Reply-To: <3F83EF6D.3050707@ecsd.com> Message-ID: <20031008131053.L63940@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <3F83EF6D.3050707@ecsd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot create partition entries for /dev/ad3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:12:55 -0000 On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ecsd wrote: e>Given that FreeBSD 5.1 is on the shelf in a box at CompUSA for sale to the e>general public, I think the proper thing to do is address the matter of e>documenting the revised operation of the devices in 5.X, rather than tell e>people to downgrade if they don't understand the behavior of their system, e>besides which FreeBSD 4.8 or 4.9 are not for sale at CompUSA as a consolation. e>I did ask to know what documentation there is for the new behavior, but I have e>not heard any replies. If there isn't any documentation, that's an answer too. You may want to look at section 12.3.2.1 of the handbook which will tell you to use 1) fdisk on the disk (da3) 2) disklabel on the slice (da3s1) 3) newfs on the partition (da3s1e) Yes, I know, real users don't read handbooks ... harti e>Poul-Henning Kamp writes: e>>In message <3F8279C5.9070300@ecsd.com>, ecsd writes: e>>>MAKEDEV was the cheese since year zero. [...] e>>I suggest you stick with 4-stable until you have caught up with e>>the changes and the documentation. e> e> e>_______________________________________________ e>freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list e>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current e>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" e> -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org