Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:23:02 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: CAN newfs ad1s3 - BUT! Message-ID: <20020514162302.G60068@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200205140622.g4E6MT176737@tierzero.apana.org.au> References: <200205130533.g4D5XL158094@tierzero.apana.org.au> <200205131006.g4DA6H161503@tierzero.apana.org.au> <20020514102119.C60068@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200205140622.g4E6MT176737@tierzero.apana.org.au>
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When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html On Tuesday, 14 May 2002 at 15:51:49 +0930, Brian Astill wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002 10:21, you wrote: >> /dev/ad1s3 is a slice, not a (FreeBSD) partition. Before you use it, >> you should partition it with disklabel. If you're going to put a >> non-root partition on it, convention suggests giving the partition a >> letter between e and h, so you'd end up with: >> >> # disklabel -e /dev/ad1s3 > > That puts me into what appears to be vi (:q to exit) Or the EDITOR of your choice. >> (add a partition h, identical to c except for partition type >> 4.2BSD followed by 3 0s). > >> # newfs /dev/ad1s3h > > That says: > newfs: /dev/ad1s3h: No such file or directory Ah, you may need to make the device node. Try # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV ad1s3h This nonsense will go away when devfs becomes mainstream. > Only thing I can think of is that I am supposed to USE the vi > look-alike and edit something to something else ?? Well, it's not a look-alike, it's the real thing, and of course you're supposed to USE it. As I said: >> (add a partition h, identical to c except for partition type >> 4.2BSD followed by 3 0s). Specifically, you'll see something like this at the end of the file: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 78165360 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 77544) Add a partition h with 3 zeros after it: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 78165360 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 77544) h: 78165360 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 77544) BTW, why are you using ad1? Do you have something else on the second IDE controller? Otherwise use ad2, not ad1. Slave disks are performance problems. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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