From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 12 11:03:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03247 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailbag.jf.intel.com (mailbag.jf.intel.com [134.134.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03221 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from aahz.jf.intel.com (aahz.jf.intel.com [192.198.161.2]) by mailbag.jf.intel.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02773 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:06:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by aahz.jf.intel.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #13) id m0w4tIl-000hxmC; Wed, 12 Mar 97 11:03 PST Message-Id: From: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie) Subject: disk docs To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:03:03 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Do anyone know of any good disk layout docs? Everytime I try to add a disk to a FreeBSD system, it is an exercise in frustration, and seems to me like it shouldn't be too hard to read the size of the disk and write a basic initial partition table and disk label that will make disklabel happy, and I'm willing to do it if I can find the information needed. Currently, I've tried "disklabel -r -w sd0 auto", and it complains "write: Read-only file system". *What* file system!?! I *haven't* *gotten* that far yet! ktrace shows it to be /dev/rsd0c that it's complaining about (the system disk is ide). Thanks... -- Alan Batie ------ What goes up, must come down. batie@aahz.jf.intel.com \ / Ask any system administrator. +1 503-264-8844 (voice) \ / --unknown D0 D2 39 0E 02 34 D6 B4 \/ 5A 41 21 8F 23 5F 08 9D