Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:15:46 -0500 From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com> To: <joup@bigfoot.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: formatting a slice for msdos Message-ID: <000501c0b4d9$e2616330$1401a8c0@zoso> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103241830210.78534-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > joup@bigfoot.com > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 9:57 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: formatting a slice for msdos > > > Hi > > When I installed FreeBSD for the first time I set aside a > slice for use > with windows, thinking I'd set up a dual boot system. As it turns out > after about three months I'm finding decidedly little to miss about > windows, but I'd like to use that space, preferably as a FAT > partition, > "just in case." > > I'm a little new to disk formatting and partitioning w/ BSD, > so I'm not > sure what information to include here. Also, I'm a little > unclear on the > nomenclature-- I'm assuming "slice" == "partition", but the whole > disklabel concept is a tad confusing. > > What I understand about my setup is that I have 3 primary > slices: the boot > manager in the zeroth one, the FAT fs in the first (dev/ad0s1), and > FreeBSD native (165) in the second (/dev/ad0s2). Currently, I'm using > slice 2 exclusively: > > %more /etc/fstab > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > /dev/ad0s2b none swap sw > 0 0 > /dev/ad0s2a / ufs rw > 1 1 > /dev/ad0s2f /usr ufs rw > 2 2 > /dev/ad0s2e /var ufs rw > 2 2 > /dev/acd0c /cd cd9660 ro,noauto > 0 0 > /dev/acd1c /cdr cd9660 ro,noauto > 0 0 > proc /proc procfs rw > 0 0 > > The problem is that I screwed up at some point, and slice 1 has a > filesystem on it, but I'm not sure what type. It turns out > that I somehow > installed a seperate kernel on slice 1 in january, and that > it has its own > partitions. However, the data there is not important and I > can certainly > live without it. > > What I'd like is to have a FAT slice here, with only 1 partition, > primarily for storing MP3s and such. I tried "newfs_msdos > /dev/ad0s1", > but that gave me: > > /dev/ad0s1: 3062336 sectors in 382792 FAT32 clusters (4096 > bytes/cluster) > bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=63 hds=255 hid=63 bsec=3068352 > bspf=2991 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=2 > newfs_msdos: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only file system > > Any advice appreciated. > Go fire up /stand/sysinstall. Let the menu guide you until you learn the command line tools. > Thanks > Mark > > > PS- I tried to subscribe to this mailing list a few weeks ago, and > majordomo said that I had to be authorized by someone before > I could join. > Any ideas why this would happen? > So someone else can't get you joined to ALL the freebsd related lists without having access to your mail. It requires YOU to do it. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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