Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:41:00 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Geom question Message-ID: <560F06B2.4030702@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <560EF795.6020406@ccsys.com> References: <560EDE45.3040605@hiwaay.net> <3D81C7BC-1A31-4046-88B7-50F25EA3B952@ccsys.com> <560EF0CC.80805@hiwaay.net> <560EF795.6020406@ccsys.com>
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On 10/02/15 16:37, Chad J. Milios wrote:
>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 4:00:44pm] 769 % mount /dev/md0s1 /media/sd/
>> mount: /dev/md0s1: Invalid argument
>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 4:01:16pm] 770 % mount -t ufs /dev/md0s1 /media/sd/
>> mount: /dev/md0s1: Invalid argument
>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 4:01:34pm] 771 % mount -t ufs /dev/md0s1a
>> /media/sd/
>> mount: /dev/md0s1a: Invalid argument
>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 4:01:41pm] 772 %
>>
>> & I appear to be stuck trying to mount the /dev/md0 device so I can
>> copy stuff to it :-/. Any clues appreciated. TIA & have a good one.
>
> you need to `newfs /dev/md0s1a` first before attempting to mount it,
> as `gpart add -t freebsd-ufs $GEOM` only marks the meta info in the
> outerlying structure (the front few blocks of /dev/md0s1 in your case)
> and doesn't actually do what you're expecting. `man newfs` to decide
> that you probably want the -U flag with that and might want the -J
> flag as well.
>
> Cheers,
> -Chad
*Damn* !!!! If brains were dynamite, I couldn't blow my nose :-/ ....
That worked AOK, thanks :-) ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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