From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 11:59:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14982 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:59:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA14839 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:59:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcmyers@concord.Corp.Sun.COM) Received: from Corp.Sun.COM ([129.145.35.78]) by mercury.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/mail.byaddr) with SMTP id LAA05441 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:57:57 -0700 Received: from concord.Corp.Sun.COM by Corp.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-5.3) id LAA08451; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:57:56 -0700 Received: from concord.corp.sun.com by concord.Corp.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA17471; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:57:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199807271857.LAA17471@concord.Corp.Sun.COM> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:57:48 -0700 (PDT) From: david.myers@Corp.Sun.COM Subject: Formatting a vn disk...? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks: How do you format a vn disk image as a ufs file system? I am attempting to set up a 650 megabyte file for use as scratch space for assembling a CD-ROM image, but cannot figure out how to format the "disk". Newfs reports a pretty obvious error: there's no disktab entry for such a beast. Here's my plan: 1) create ~/cdimage as a 650 megabyte file 2) issue 'vnconfig /dev/vn0c ~/cdimage' 3) newfs /dev/rvn0c -- THIS DOESN'T WORK 4) fill up the new 650MB "disk", then 'mkisofs | cdrecord' when full... Hints? Suggestions? Or can vn disks only be used for swap? -David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message