Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:02:02 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Jason Edward Kocol <mrkocol@cv.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem adding new slices Message-ID: <20070805190202.5E14945045@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:24:21 PDT." <46B607C5.4050305@cv.org>
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--==_Exmh_1186340522_48757P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > 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. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1186340522_48757P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFGth6qkn3rs5h7N1ERArPmAKCujBa8A1uoNNqvnW+ub210/bkIiQCcDhIy FMK7OoX0Hrhtob4+n4B7LbM= =yViJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1186340522_48757P--
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