Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:36:30 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Dharma Wolford" <bsd.talk@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD partitioning question... Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080414163403.02478050@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <aa7308b80804141327v7c6d0ff1i62fcc528a9e33318@mail.gmail.co m> References: <aa7308b80804141327v7c6d0ff1i62fcc528a9e33318@mail.gmail.com>
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At 03:27 PM 4/14/2008, Dharma Wolford wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>(I'm a relative newcomer to all this... thanks for your patience & help.)
>
>I've installed FreeBSD 6.2 on a system that will be primarily used as an FTP
>server. It has 2 drives - one for the OS and the other for the FTP
>storage. My question is about the storage drive in this case.
>
>You can see how I have things partitioned right now:
>#################################
>[root@mybox /var/log]# mount
>/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local)
>devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
>/dev/da0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
>/dev/da0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
>/dev/da0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
>/dev/da1 on /usr/home (ufs, local, soft-updates)
>[root@mybox /var/log]#
>#################################
>
>I started by trying to use fdisk to partition the storage drive (/dev/da1)
>but was getting errors which I don't exactly recall - something about a
>problem with the 'block device'.
>Anyway, then I wound up using the command "newfs -O 2 /dev/da1" which
>seemed to work and I was then able to mount and use the drive.
>
>My question is: is there anything wrong with having "/dev/da1" mounted an
>in-use? Should I have created a partition like "/dev/da1s1a" or something?
>I seem to remember somebody once chiding me for having formatted or mounted
>the 'block device' itself instead of a partition... is this making any sense
>to anyone? Clearly I need to know more about *NIX file systems (slices,
>partitions, block devices) and best practices or some such - I am working on
>it but obviously have a ways to go!
>
>Thanks very much!
>
>dharma
Sounds like the drive geometry was off or you may have a drive with
issues. You should have been able to create a partition with a single
slice on it. I would check the drive with diagnostics from the
manufacturer. Those utilities will also allow you to know the correct
geometry.
-Derek
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