Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:32:34 -0500 From: keyser@clio.rice.edu (Kevin Keyser) To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating a vn filesystem Message-ID: <9809011732.AA14985@clio.rice.edu>
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> I'm trying to create a vn filesystem on my -current box, using the following:
>
> [morden|root] 0:13 ~ dd if=/dev/zero of=/d/bigfile bs=1024 count=204800
> 204800+0 records in
> 204800+0 records out
> 209715200 bytes transferred in 59.543914 secs (3522026 bytes/sec)
> [morden|root] 0:15 ~ vnconfig -c /dev/vn1 /d/bigfile
> (/dev/vn0 is being used as a swap file, hence /dev/vn1)
> [morden|root] 0:17 ~ disklabel -e /dev/vn1
> (dumps me in vi with the following)
>
{ normal looking disklabel }
>
> This seems okay to me - but upon writing and quitting, I get
>
> disklabel: Operation not supported by device
> re-edit the label? [y]:
The following works for me on 2.2.6R:
dd if=/dev/zero of=vn0.file bs=1m count=200
vnconfig -c /dev/vn0 vn0.file
disklabel /dev/rvn0 | disklabel -R -r vn0 /dev/stdin
disklabel -r -e vn0
newfs /dev/rvn0a
Maybe there's an easier way though...
> Thanks,
>
> Kris
Kevin
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