From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 11:20:25 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 1F10716A4B3 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:20:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.allcaps.org (mail.allcaps.org [206.251.247.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6463C43FBF for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:20:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsder@allcaps.org) Received: from mail.allcaps.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.allcaps.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DED2D8443; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bsder@localhost)h98IKGT7022267; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:20:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.allcaps.org: bsder owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:20:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." To: ecsd In-Reply-To: <3F83EAF5.4030301@ecsd.com> Message-ID: <20031008105514.F22222@mail.allcaps.org> References: <3F83DB69.907@ecsd.com> <20031008114254.E63940@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20031008121500.U63940@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <3F83EAF5.4030301@ecsd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no 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 18:20:25 -0000 On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ecsd wrote: > The chronology is that I booted the system, did the disklabel -w -r ad3 > auto, turned around to disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1c (as I would normally > do), and was told that /dev/ad3s1c did not exist. Then I wrote in here > asking for help. ad3s1c does not exist. Since it looks like you already have a working FreeBSD system, can you try running /stand/sysinstall ? At that point, you can choose "Configure" and the Fdisk and Label choices are generally a much freindlier interface to getting a disk online. While "Real Men Use the Command Line", I have found more than enough mysterious situations that /stand/sysinstall just seems to get right even though what I type at command line should be the same thing. Sometimes I have to do the slice configuration, reboot the machine, and *then* edit the label. Whatever. I don't use disklabel, bsdlabel, or fdisk often enough to memorize the options and procedures; consequently, everytime I have to configure a random storage device I'm effectively a newbie. Also, I have lost track of the number of times that I have pulled out and booted a RedHat rescue CD in order so that I can get a slice table that Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD (admittedly not all the fault lies with FreeBSD) can all agree on. Configuring disk slices and partitions in FreeBSD sucks, but nobody is going to fix it. It's grubby, grunt work that a company like RedHat has to pay someone to do. The person who does the rewrite for FreeBSD will only catch grief when it has bugs, but will get neither praise nor money when it works. I can only fix one of those things. ;) To whomever wrote the Fdisk and Label editor in sysinstall: Thanks. You did a good job, and I thank you for it. -a