From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Oct 2 22:35:33 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6311A0D987 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 22:35:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85535143A for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 22:35:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-213-32.knology.net [216.186.213.32] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t92MZU8A018305 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:35:31 -0500 Subject: Re: Geom question References: <560EDE45.3040605@hiwaay.net> <3D81C7BC-1A31-4046-88B7-50F25EA3B952@ccsys.com> <560EF0CC.80805@hiwaay.net> <560EF795.6020406@ccsys.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <560F06B2.4030702@hiwaay.net> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:41:00 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <560EF795.6020406@ccsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:35:33 -0000 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 :-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.