From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 23:08:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B1AC1065673 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:08:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd.talk@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B738A8FC21 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:08:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd.talk@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 2so848114ywt.13 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:08:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=qE8h0rK/xkb6Z+AwTt+tXnAMre/CmrO4EXE1evLfoWs=; b=c2/c1xrizjS8WVDqy0GzRRcRlILOn2czoAW0dwyUf1rEqgXgHqROaBkpbpl+PfB2VuBpixi0AkwNnlU+vmcn+D2OHW0SL5KrB3/Iv+wvOOpr+ROWirIpKQuVmcKUX99WkJMYiDOnZuDFWwy7HM+SMn416zl5usQN5mu6ZZoOy10= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=GnwpFoAstu3XSLlvEbQje02UPQb4cCXDfUHOa2FhSvdnN1ObokdGX3jqk1fhfpt0kzWMLCuXaHm3u1KbKCI1/ucBjTjXWuTLNpmCpOzL13AO34xsZpsN4nUUIn5oPFwbPSOyVC0CndU7s8kF0KfihOcEDNmBveZJvZjDc+Ti79M= Received: by 10.150.212.14 with SMTP id k14mr6903164ybg.148.1208214491906; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.11.16 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:08:11 -0700 From: "Dharma Wolford" To: "Mario Lobo" In-Reply-To: <200804141938.30815.mlobo@digiart.art.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6.0.0.22.2.20080414163403.02478050@mail.computinginnovations.com> <200804141938.30815.mlobo@digiart.art.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD partitioning question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:08:24 -0000 On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: > > If you issue the command: > > fdisk -I /dev/da1 > > -I Initialize sector 0 slice table for one FreeBSD slice covering > the entire disk. > > and then: ls /dev/da1* > > you'll get: > > /dev/da1 > /dev/da1s1 > > which I believe is what you want. > > then you can: newfs -O 2 (-U) /dev/da1s1 > > then you can: mount /dev/da1s1 /whatever > > -- > Mario Lobo Thanks Mario, and Jerry and Derek! Jerry, Introducing the idea of 'dangerously dedicated' disks helped a lot... it lead me to this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html ...which gave some additional info on 'dedicated mode' and 'compatability mode' and walked me through the steps to create either. I managed to do that and then tried to mount the /dev/da1s1 device but it complained about 'incorrect super block' until I executed "newfs -O 2 /dev/da1s1" after which I was able to mount it! ############################ [root@mybox /usr]# mount /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/da0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da1s1 on /usr/home (ufs, local, soft-updates) [root@mybox /usr]# ############################ I did all that just before I saw Mario's response (thanks again!) so... anyway, looks like I've got it going in a better way now and it agrees with what Mario suggested I should be expecting so I'm happy. Thanks to all! dharma