From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 13:48:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08C416A4B3 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:48:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C38443FE1 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:48:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([12.233.125.100]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003100820482601500khpoge>; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:48:26 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA64879; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:48:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: ecsd In-Reply-To: <3F83EAF5.4030301@ecsd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no partition entries for /dev/ad3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:48:28 -0000 On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ecsd wrote: > Harti Brandt wrote: > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ecsd wrote: > e>I had already been able to go so far as to "disklabel -w -r ad3 auto". > e>After doing this on a 4.X system I would then "disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1c" > e>but /dev/ad3s1c does not exist, so I am stuck. > e>Maybe there is a "rescan devices" command? > > e> fdisk thinks it has no work to do. > > In that case you should have a /dev/ad3s1. Have you? > harti > > The chronology is that I booted the system, did the disklabel -w -r ad3 > auto, > turned around to disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1c (as I would normally do), and > was told that /dev/ad3s1c did not exist. Then I wrote in here asking for > help. > ad3s1c does not exist. that's because you didn't do the fdisk before you did the disklabel. a/ NEVER use the 'c' partition as the target. b/ since you never created a ad3s1 what makes you thing it will be subdivided? You subdivided ad3 so that is what you should use with disklabel -e. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >