On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, DAVID THOMPSON wrote: > I am a relatively new FreeBSD user and I have never posted a request > for help before so I hope I am doing this right and not plugging up the > board with irrelevant and out of context questions. My apologies if I > am. Here is my problem:
Welcome to the club! > I have vinum installed on my FreeBSD 5.1-Release box. Vinum starts and > runs fine, but I can't fsck any of the volumes because it says... > > "fsck: Could not determine filesystem type." > > If I do a fsck -T ufs /dev/vinum/??? it will work fine, but it's when I > don't explicity tell fsck what the filesystem type is that I get this > error. You probably didn't disklabel the disk. Do a "man disklabel". In particular, you should do: disklabel -w /dev/vinum/??? auto Edit the disklabel: disklabel -e /dev/vinum/??? Then newfs: newfs /dev/vinum/??? Note that you can potentially trash the system with all this, so please read the section in the handbook on setting up vinum and/or disklabels before doing this on a production system. In fact, test on a scratch disk first. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html -Nate _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
