Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:44:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Add New Disk Message-ID: <XFMail.980623084414.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980622145724.9597Z-100000@voyager.dreamhaven.net>
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On 22-Jun-98 Bryce Newall wrote: > I ran into the same trouble trying to add a new SCSI drive to my > system. > I found that I had to go to the partition editor first, and define > the partition there. Then, DON'T write the changes to disk yet; just > hit Q to finish. Then go to the label editor and define where you > want your partition mounted, etc. While you're in the label editor, > *then* use W to write out the changes, and when you exit the label > editor, it should mount and, if necessary, format, your partition. That's the path I took when I got the errors: Unable to add /dev/wd2s1b as a swap device: Invalid Argument Error mounting /dev/wd2s1e on /u2: Invalid Argument I also tried the diskformat method from the tutorial section of the web page. Here are the results: gateway# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd2 count=2 wd2s1: type 0xb, start 63, end = 6314111, size 6314049 : OK 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 0.000845 secs (1211898 bytes/sec) gateway# disklabel /dev/rwd2 | disklabel -B -R -r wd2 /dev/stdin wd2s1: type 0xb, start 63, end = 6314111, size 6314049 : OK disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: No space left on device Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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