Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:29:35 -0700 From: Oliver Iberien <oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall won't write fs to new disk, bad magic number Message-ID: <200604120829.35428.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <44mzerdot8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <200604102018.57042.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> <44mzerdot8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Wednesday 12 April 2006 04:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Oliver Iberien <oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> writes: > > There was a thread about this a while ago, but it did not seem to end in > > a solution... In any case, I have a 160GB Seagate drive that I was trying > > to mount a partition on as /disk2. I went through the instructions in the > > Handbook under "Formatting Media for Use With FreeBSD." No formatting > > seemed to be happening, though. When I added it to fstab, something in > > KDE found it and then failed to open it. mount shows that it has not been > > mounted, and if I try to mount it: > > > > bsd# mount -u /dev/ad1s2c /disk2 > > mount: /dev/ad1s2c on /disk2: specified device does not match mounted > > device bsd# mount /dev/ad1s2c /disk2 > > mount: /dev/ad1s2c: Input/output error > > > > I looked at the previous thread and then tried: > > > > bsd# newfs /dev/ad1s2c > > /dev/ad1s2c: 52627.0MB (107780084 sectors) block size 16384, fragment > > size 2048 > > using 287 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > > 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, > > 3010976, ... > > 107260480, 107636832 > > cg 0: bad magic number > > > > I had two partitions on it, one to be used for linux later on. I tried > > swapping them out, but no difference. > > > > This drive worked under linux. Any ideas? > > Sounds like you didn't write a disklabel on it. > That's covered in the tutorial you mentioned... I used the disklabel tool in sysinstall. But it did not seem to do anything...
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