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Date:      Tue, 14 May 2002 10:21:19 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: CAN newfs ad1s3 - BUT!
Message-ID:  <20020514102119.C60068@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200205131006.g4DA6H161503@tierzero.apana.org.au>
References:  <200205130533.g4D5XL158094@tierzero.apana.org.au> <20020513150443.B47359@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200205131006.g4DA6H161503@tierzero.apana.org.au>

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On Monday, 13 May 2002 at 19:35:36 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2002 15:04, you wrote:
>> On Saturday, 11 May 2002 at 21:46:51 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
>>> Greetings, all!
>>>
>>> Odd.  Tried again using stand/sysinstall and this time "insisted" by
>>> using <W>rite to disk and ignored all warnings - it worked.
>>> BUT, while fdisk ad1 shows:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> disklabel and newfs do NOT make ad1s3 available for uee <sigh>
>>
>> What are you trying to do?  You shouldn't be putting file systems on
>> /dev/ad1s3.
>
> Whyever not? My mummy says I can!  :-)
> I have WinNT on ad0s1 and ad0s2
> I have DOS(also acessible to WinNT on ad1s1 and ad1s2.
> I have FBSD on ad0s3.
> I DID have Linux on as1s3.  I don't anymore.
>
> I want to use the now empty 5G at ad1s3 for /usr/local.
>
> This shouldn't be illegal immoral or fattening, should it?

/dev/ad1s3 is a slice, not a (FreeBSD) partition.  Before you use it,
you should partition it with disklabel.  If you're going to put a
non-root partition on it, convention suggests giving the partition a
letter between e and h, so you'd end up with:

  # disklabel -e /dev/ad1s3

    (add a partition h, identical to c except for partition type
    4.2BSD followed by 3 0s).
  # newfs /dev/ad1s3h

Greg
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