From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 16:35:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA08663 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bbq.websource.com.au (bbq.websource.com.au [203.12.233.198]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA08590 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cheese@localhost) by bbq.websource.com.au (8.7.5/8.6.12) id JAA01938; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:38:49 GMT From: Mark Cheeseman Message-Id: <199609300938.JAA01938@bbq.websource.com.au> Subject: Re: Adding a second disk - what am I missing? To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:38:49 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Sep 29, 96 02:16:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > > /dev/rsd0s1 I get around this problem). The next message is a little > > less helpful: "newfs: /dev/sd0s1: `1' partition is unavailable". > > You need to specify a BSD partition, ie a,d,e etc. I assume you're using > the entire disk and don't want to partition it, so newfs the a drive: > > newfs /dev/rsd0s1a Except that I don't seem to have an "a" partition: "newfs: /dev/rsd0s1a: No such file or directory" I guess there must be another step in there somewhere. Any more suggestions? Regards Mark