From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 13:24:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06326 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06225 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:23:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA11511; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:22:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: david.myers@Corp.Sun.COM cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Formatting a vn disk...? In-Reply-To: <199807271857.LAA17471@concord.Corp.Sun.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 david.myers@Corp.Sun.COM wrote: > How do you format a vn disk image as a ufs file system? I am attempting > to set up a 650 megabyte file for use as scratch space for assembling a > CD-ROM image, but cannot figure out how to format the "disk". Newfs > reports a pretty obvious error: there's no disktab entry for such a > beast. Don't need a disktab. > > Here's my plan: > > 1) create ~/cdimage as a 650 megabyte file > 2) issue 'vnconfig /dev/vn0c ~/cdimage' 2.5) disklabel /dev/vn0 | disklabel -B -R -r vn0 /dev/stdin > 3) newfs /dev/rvn0c -- THIS DOESN'T WORK > 4) fill up the new 650MB "disk", then 'mkisofs | cdrecord' when full... > > Hints? Suggestions? Or can vn disks only be used for swap? Take a look at the src/release/floppy(?)/Makefile for hints. They make the install floppy this way, so I certainly hope not :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message