Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 21:15:50 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev? Message-ID: <20090703201550.GA16090@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4A4E5669.8070308@mykitchentable.net> <20090703220406.d07ca7b4.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:04:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote: > > Next I used bsdlabel > > and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). > ^ > There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon > is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS diskette drive. :-) > > > > > However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such > > as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do > > the get them to show after I've labeled? > > If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a > slice on those disks, instead you created one partition (a) on > each of the disks. > > If you are a lazy guy (as I am), then use sysinstall to create the > slices and the partition. Choose "standard MBR" after the slice > editor and go ahead with the partition editor. why not give gpart(8) a go? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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