From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 16:35:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA18283 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 16:35:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from moonpie.w8hd.org (moonpie.w8hd.org [198.252.159.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18274 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 16:35:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kimc@localhost) by moonpie.w8hd.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA01380; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:34:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:34:36 -0500 (EST) From: Kim Culhan To: Jason Diesel cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding disks... In-Reply-To: <199603201555.QAA00246@othello.dataware.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Jason Diesel wrote: > This is what I have been trying to do, the only problem is, fdisk > gets the correct parameters for the disk, disklabel does not > have a clue what I am trying to do, and newfs then writes a fs > of about a third of my disk. I think you can solve all of these problems if you use fdisk to first create a small dos partition of say, a few megs, then use the tools as you have to make the next partition for FreeBSD. I think this will convey the correct disk geometry information and things will work as expected. regards kim -- kimc@w8hd.org