From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 17:56:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05C437B41F for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:56:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a169.otenet.gr [212.205.215.169]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2J1uQjo029616; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 03:56:27 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2J1uQtu000730; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 03:56:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2J1uQYX000729; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 03:56:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 03:56:26 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Beauford Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Newbie Question Message-ID: <20020319015626.GB530@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020318040016.GA4703@hades.hell.gr> <001d01c1cfca$b688b300$6401a8c0@p1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001d01c1cfca$b688b300$6401a8c0@p1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-03-19 20:50, Beauford wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2002-03-18 22:34, Beauford wrote: > > > I should probably be able to find this, but It is escaping me right > > > now. I just added another drive to my existing FreeBSD box and went > > > into /stand/sysinstall and fdisked and labelled the drive > > > appropriately, but how do I format it and get it mounted (actually, > > > mounting is not a problem, but what is the drive called? My first > > > drive is ad0s1a). > > > > You'll find a wealth of information about this in the FreeBSD.org > > article "Formatting Media for use with FreeBSD". Find it online at: > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/ > > This is the site I read and is what I did, but still no go. I did it > again and tried to manually mount the drive and get "incorrect > superblock". I am using wd1s1e for the drive designation. So maybe my > problem is something else. Any suggestions? Please do *not* post your reply above the quoted text. Also set your mailer up so that it prepends quoted text with "> " or something similar. Read the instructions of that page again. It's obvious that you forgot to run "newfs", but I wanted you to find out by yourself. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message