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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:40:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Goran Larsson <goran@patriot.pluggnet.se>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: About "a new file system"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960718213943.265A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960718181124.224A-100000@patriot.pluggnet.se>

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On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Goran Larsson wrote:

> Hello FreeBSD friends!
> 
> I am at the moment running some FreeBSD servers on my WebSite "pluggnet.se"
> They are all "standard" installed with "novice" help in setup, everything 
> works 100% well!! until the device wd0 whent out of space! on /var 
> mounted partition.
> 
> My task and problems:
> 
> 	I installed an "primary slave" drive and got it to run as wd1, FreeBSD 
> 	"knows" about the drive OK!
> 
> 	I boot up my computer whith "boot" disk an run "Expert" mode, in 
> 	the "fdisk" section i create my partitions with "A" (auto) then i 
> 	write info to disk with "W". I put an "ordinary" record NOT boot on the 
> 	new disk. I end this section with "Q".

Oops!  You didn't want to <W>rite it!  That function is severely broken.  

> 	I want the disk to operate as one partition and creates only one 
> 	whit disklabel utility, but i am not able to write info to disk.

That's why.  Delete the partition and start over.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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