Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:05:43 -0700 From: Jason Edward Kocol <mrkocol@cv.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem adding new slices Message-ID: <46B61F87.3080102@cv.org> In-Reply-To: <20070805190202.5E14945045@ptavv.es.net> References: <20070805190202.5E14945045@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:24:21 -0700
>> From: Jason Edward Kocol <mrkocol@cv.org>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
>>
>> I am running 6.2 STABLE and am having an issue adding new slices to a
>> disk on a running system. The drive ad0 is 160GB and my original plan
>> was to add slices as I needed them. I have successfully created slice
>> ad0s1 for all typical mount points, and was even able to create ad0s2d
>> for mount point /c. The problem now is that I am unable to create a
>> third slice, ad0s3d, on mount point /d. I've tried using sysinstall to
>> do this, and in the Label editor the final message is:
>>
>> Error mounting /dev/ad0s3d on /d : No such file or directory.
>>
>> I checked /dev, and sure enough ad0s3d is not in there. It just never
>> gets created.
>>
>> I have tried doing this in several ways; rebooting after using fdisk to
>> create the partition, then running Label editor but the result is always
>> the same. I even tried moving all the files I had on /c to another
>> machine, deleting that slice (originally 15GB) and creating a much
>> larger one in its place (now 60GB), but the end result of that is the
>> "new" slice is the same size of the old one, even though in the Label
>> editor it shows the new larger size I created.
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestions, even bypassing sysinstall entirely and
>> using other utilities, please let me know the exact steps to take.
>
> A bit of a lack of information in yo9ur report.
>
> Please provide the output of 'fdisk ad0' and 'bsdlabel /dev/ad0s3'. My
> suspicion is that there is a problem in the slicing, but there is not
> any real data in the report on which I can to base that.
Thank you, here is that information:
/root> fdisk ad0
******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 30716217 (14998 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 30716280, size 122865120 (59992 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 153581400, size 61432560 (29996 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
/root> bsdlabel /dev/ad0s3
bsdlabel: /dev/ad0s3: No such file or directory
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