> > Added an additional hard drive to an existing setup. > > Then gave the following commands: > > > > bsdlabel -w /dev/ad2 > > newfs -U -O 2 /dev/ad2 > > mount /dev/ad2 /mnt/ad2 > > > > then went about the business of moving and rearranging for having the new > > disk. > > After the machine was back in production, I saw the odd mount point. > > > > My question is, have I just ended up ignoring the bsdlabel command and I'm > > using the entire disk as a "raw disk" or is there some set of reasons I > > should > > re-bsdlabel and newfs /dev/ad2a this time. > > What do you mean 'odd mount point'. You don't give any information > that would make it seem odd. > > What does doing 'bsdlabel ad2' show you? > Does it seem happy? > Does newfs seem happy? >
I didn't include output from bsdlabel, as it didn't show anything unexpected %bsdlabel /dev/ad2 # /dev/ad2: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 490234736 16 unused 0 0 c: 490234752 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit which looked right, the odd part was the fact that I issued newfs /dev/ad2 in place of the usual newfs /dev/ad2a So it looked to me as I just ignored the bsdlabel command and newfs'd the entire disk starting at an offset of 0 instaid of the usual offset of 16 With this being a non boot disk, I wasn't worried about it, I'm expecting that the bsdlabel information will get overwritten by the directory structure sooner or later. Except for forgetting that I have a device with a filesystem and no slices/partitions my concern is that there is some internal bookkeeping issue that I'm not aware of that will cause trouble if I don't have valid label information on the disk. Oh, I tested it with another disk, the directory entries will overwrite the label information, no real surprise there. John. -- ------------------------------------- John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
