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> 
> > asuming that you have done the whole fdisk/disklabel/newfs you can list
> > the contents of /dev thus, ls /dev to find out.  It will be ad1s1d oassume
> > something like that
> 
> I do have several ad1* devices in /dev but I can not mount them. So I
> asume they are just there to be there?
> 
> Why would it be ad1s1d? If the whole drive is being used wouldn't it be
> ad1s1a?

It would be whatever you used in the disklabel run (or the one done
for you if you use sysinstall).   'd' is unlikely and so is 'c'

////jerry

> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Joshua Lewis
> 
> 
> 
> Anubis
> > Joshua Lewis wrote:
> >>>/dev/ad1s1 what?  a, d, e, f,g ??
> >>
> >>
> >> Do I specify? I am using the whole drive. should I change it to
> >> /dev/ad1s1a?
> >>