Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:01:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Jim Van Baalen <vansax@mail.websidestory.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't Newfs Disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291559070.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980728154846.18204E-100000@mail.websidestory.co m>
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Jim Van Baalen wrote: > I have just added a second disk to a machine and I can't newfs a > filesystem on this disk. I have been through this process several > times in the last week on different machines and have not had this > problem. The machine is running 2.2.6-RELEASE. It sees the second > disk at boot time > > Jul 28 13:49:07 host2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:2:0): Direct-Access 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors) > > It seems to accept a disklabel. I added > > st34572w|Seagate ST34572W SCSI: \ > :dt=SCSI:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#8:ns#176:nc#6300: \ > :pc#8870400:oc#0: > > to /etc/disktab. > > disklabel -r -w sd1 st34572w Um, you just overwote your slice table. You should have said disklabel -r -w sd1s4 st .... > returns no errors, but newfs fails. > > newfs -N /dev/rsd1c > newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid argument > newfs: /dev/rsd1c: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified Try /dev/rsd1s4c instead. > The data for partition 4 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 1, size 8870399 (4331 Meg), flag 80 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0; > end: cyl 155/ sector 48/ head 7 This is fudged, but the entire slice table is fubar'd. :( I don't know if you'll be able to reboot your system until you fix the fdisk damage you caused with disklabel (unless this is a Dangerously Dedicated disk). See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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