Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:48:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: ecsd <ecsd@ecsd.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no partition entries for /dev/ad3 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0310081346020.64832-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <3F83EAF5.4030301@ecsd.com>
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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" >
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