Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:37:22 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults Message-ID: <20100203183722.06ead46a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <539c60b91002030926r28d67355u3930058b9fc759d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b91002021859h6761ef1fk244d69000e089c65@mail.gmail.com> <20100203151808.GC15086@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <539c60b91002030926r28d67355u3930058b9fc759d7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700, Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm just trying > to make a fresh disk ready for dump/restore with a 1G /, so I guess > sysinstall is out as an option at this time. Why so complicated? The command # newfs /dev/ad1 will prepare the disk, assuming ad1 is the new disk. It will create one single partition covering the whole disk, with no slice. You can then run # mount /dev/ad1 /mnt to access it; /dev/ad1 is the same as /dev/ad1c, "the whole disk". By the way, have you tried the program # sade instead of sysinstall? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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