Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:32:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: compatibility mode question (was: Re: I am desperate please help my hdd) Message-ID: <20011016103217.A48937@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20011015060604.A78867@hades.hell.gr>; from charon@labs.gr on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:06:05AM %2B0300 References: <20011015060604.A78867@hades.hell.gr>
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On Monday, 15 October 2001 at 6:06:05 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: >> >> On Monday, 15 October 2001 at 2:08:31 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> Rob <rob@thechain.com> wrote: >>>> fsck /dev/ad1a which said this: >>> >>> You are probably looking in the wrong place for a partition table. >>> Try this: >>> >>> # fdisk /dev/ad1 >> >> That is incorrect. That would look on a slice. We put file systems >> in partitions, such as /dev/ad1a. > > Are you sure? What have I gotten wrong in my setup? > >> df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 194548 64553 114432 36% / > /dev/ad0s3e 496111 55636 400787 12% /var > /dev/ad0s3f 4065262 1580997 2159045 42% /usr > /dev/ad0s3g 34804895 4134941 27885563 13% /home > devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Nothing. These are the full partition names (I forget the official name for them). /dev/ad0a and /dev/ad0s1a are the same thing, but the former is the old name, now called a compatability partition. We had some long arg^H^H^Hdiscussions when the names changed. > I always thought that /dev/ad[0-3] is the disk device, Yes. > with /dev/ad[0-3]s[0-9] being slices, /dev/ad*s[1-4] > and their partitions (within the slices) being called > /dev/ad[0-3]s[0-9][a-h]. Correct on a system with a Microsoft partition table. But then there are the compatibility slices, as mentioned already. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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