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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding 2nd SCSI Disk on FreeBSD 2.1R
Date: 4 Apr 1996 21:49:06 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) writes:

> >but when I try to do a newfs /dev/rsd2, I get this error:
> 
> >newfs: /dev/rsd2: '2' partition is unavaliable. Whats with partition
> >2?
> 
> 
> Shouldn't that be newsfs /dev/rsd2c - partition c is traditionally
> the whole disk.

But it's normally not a good idea to use partition `c' for a file
system.  Leave it alone, run ``disklabel -e sd2'', copy the `c' line
over to, for example, `e', and change this one to be ``4.2BSD 8192
1024'', or however you like it.

Then, ``newfs -d0 /dev/rsd2e''.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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