On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Mario Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you issue the command: > > fdisk -I /dev/da1 > > -I Initialize sector 0 slice table for one FreeBSD slice covering > the entire disk. > > and then: ls /dev/da1* > > you'll get: > > /dev/da1 > /dev/da1s1 > > which I believe is what you want. > > then you can: newfs -O 2 (-U) /dev/da1s1 > > then you can: mount /dev/da1s1 /whatever > > -- > Mario Lobo Thanks Mario, and Jerry and Derek! Jerry, Introducing the idea of 'dangerously dedicated' disks helped a lot... it lead me to this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html ...which gave some additional info on 'dedicated mode' and 'compatability mode' and walked me through the steps to create either. I managed to do that and then tried to mount the /dev/da1s1 device but it complained about 'incorrect super block' until I executed "newfs -O 2 /dev/da1s1" after which I was able to mount it! ############################ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr]# 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/da1s1 on /usr/home (ufs, local, soft-updates) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr]# ############################ I did all that just before I saw Mario's response (thanks again!) so... anyway, looks like I've got it going in a better way now and it agrees with what Mario suggested I should be expecting so I'm happy. Thanks to all! dharma _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
