Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:37:37 -0500 From: "Ron Hensley" <ronh@intercom.net> To: "Rod Person" <roddierod@yahoo.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems creating a filesystem on a new SCSI drive. Message-ID: <016301c181fd$9a134e30$0273150a@woodstock.lanalyse.com> References: <20011210230713.08e9608c.roddierod@yahoo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just added a disk, here's where I did /stand/sysinstall Fdisk option, create a partion, write it out, quit back to post install menu Label option, Create, FS, mount point, write, done quit out of sysinstall mount it wherever and add it to /etc/fstab for mount after reboot - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Person" <roddierod@yahoo.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 11:07 PM Subject: Problems creating a filesystem on a new SCSI drive. > I have just install a new SCSI drive, it is drive da1. > > I read the handbook and tried to format it in 'Dedicate' mode and 'non-dedicate'. Either way when I reach the point of issuing the following command: > newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e > I get the error that 'e' partition is unavailble. I have tried this a few times and I even did a low level format. > > Here may complete attempt. > > dd if=/dev/zero of /dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 > disklabel -Brw da1 auto > disklable -e da1 # I didn't edit just :q out of vi > newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e > then the error.... > > What can I do or did I do wrong. I also tried to use /stand/sysinstall and the same thing happens. > > Rod > > > roddierod@yahoo.com > > "I'm a character in a world gone wrong!" > - Entombed - Returning to Madness > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBPBWNj1Fb04N5DzUjEQIWbQCgoiBPnAW5lEESFLhXZtbBY6Ig0wsAoO/U R9n71Mbf7rAJK7x7KHHt+nqN =geIn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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