On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:08:11PM -0700, Dharma Wolford wrote: > 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!
I would have gone on then and used bsdlabel to create one partition in the single slice before doing the newfs again. That would have given you /dev/da1s1a . ////jerry > > ############################ > [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]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
