From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 25 19:14:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24633 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 19:14:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24619 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 19:14:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from bonsai.hiwaay.net (tnt1-124.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.124]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA11100; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 21:14:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34CBFFBF.C6DC9D8@hiwaay.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 21:15:12 -0600 From: Steve Price X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: brunell@uwplatt.edu.NOSPAM CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating FreeBSD partition References: <34CBF98F.28581D74@uwplatt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Matt Brunell wrote: > > Hello, > I have FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE installed on my first hard disk, > 800 megs is simply not enough space.... > Anyway, I am trying to create a partition at the end of my third hard > disk. a Maxtor 5.1 GIG > I created a partition with the sysinstall prog, but newfs says > /dev/wd20s4 isn't a special device ^ Is this just a typo, or are you really trying to use /dev/wd20? /dev/wd20 == the 21st IDE device Steve > Any Ideas? > > --Matt > > ---------- > Remove NOSPAM at end of reply address to reply