From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 30 8:51:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.intechsoft.net (okcds1-blk1-hfc-0251-d1db0faa.rdc1.ok.coxatwork.com [209.219.15.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0120B15963 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:51:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from internal@intechsoft.net) Received: from wkbruce ([192.168.1.12]) by fw.intechsoft.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA06130; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:51:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from internal@intechsoft.net) Message-ID: <002301bf3b53$24ca5f30$0c01a8c0@wkbruce> From: "Bruce DeVault" To: "Steve Quirk" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Adding a large hard drive post-install Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:51:26 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Don't worry about the mount error message - it's trying to mount over > your root filesystem. > > Just mount everything by hand onto /mnt or someplace convenient. > > e.g. mount /dev/wd2s1a /mnt This isn't what's happening at all. I'm making a new directory /ua, like: rmdir /ua mkdir /ua mount /dev/wd2s1e /ua The problem is, the filesystem can't be mounted because newfs failed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message