Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 20:04:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Kallen <spidaman@well.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding disks and the disklabel question Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960728194301.12520A-100000@well> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728160612.226A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> I mailed my procedure a dozen times: > > disklabel -Brw sd1 auto <really? that'll do it? let's see...> root:ns1: {31} disklabel -Brw sd1 auto write: Read-only file system <OK, let's try to explicitly label the raw device> root:ns1: {32} disklabel -Brw /dev/rsd1 auto "auto" requires the usage of a canonical disk name. auto: unknown disk type <sigh> <OK, there's a dos stub slice (sd1s0) and a type "165" on slice 1... try it> root:ns1: {33} disklabel -Brw sd1s1 auto disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument <and similar failures trying to reference it as a raw device...> > disklabel -e sd1 # edit partitions > for filesys in `get file system partitions of sd1` > do > newfs -d0 /dev/rsd1${filesys} > done > vi /etc/fstab > > This creates ``dangerously dedicated'' drives (thus no `fdisk' > required), as long as this is fine with you, the above is perhaps the > easiest way. I would be most pleased to see this "easiest way" succeed. If you are getting different results than the ones I pasted in above, I sure would like to know why... > > > Sysinstall still core dumps when I try and usr it to partition and and > > disklabel the second drive. sysinstall seems to want to make mods to my existing boot drive -- it all seems geared for installation not supplementing disks and file systems. > This is a quickie. I have the long explanation of this from Seppo if you > are interested. > > If I had a disk to make, I'd write a tutorial. I'd be happy to document for the benefit of others how to make this work if I could do so myself. Although the machines I'm using are in production (thus I don't have a lot of latitude for experimentation) -- I'm open to doing whatever it takes to document this more fully and have it added to handbook and/or FAQ (short of frying my disks ;). > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major The next interface will not be another desktop metaphor.... Ian Kallen .... http://www.well.com/user/spidaman/ ....the revolution will not be televised. ===== TO RECEIVE MY PGP KEY, SEND MAIL TO spidey-pgp-info@well.com =======
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