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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!sunic!seunet!tvt-k!paul From: paul@tvt-k (Paul Pries) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: HELP.. Disklabel, Disktab, newfs problems Message-ID: <1992Nov1.181354.231@tvt-k> Date: 1 Nov 92 18:13:54 GMT References: <1992Nov1.195837.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> Organization: >Televerket Utbildning, Utf Lines: 35 nmurrayr@cc.curtin.edu.au (Ron Murray) writes: >Help! I have ground to a halt with problems in making and mounting >a second SCSI drive. I am a unix newbie so it's probably me. [stuff deleted] >memtel # newfs /dev/ras1a >memtel # newfs /dev/ras1d >memtel # df >Filesystem 512-blks used avail capacity Mounted on >/dev/as0a 625246 390924 171796 69% / >memtel # mount /dev/as1a /u >memtel # mount /dev/as1d /v >memtel # df >Filesystem 512-blks used avail capacity Mounted on >/dev/as0a 625246 390924 171796 69% / >/dev/as1a 9214 2 8290 0% /u >/dev/as1d 9214 2 8290 0% /v >See how I always get whatever partition I last newfsed? If I >create a file on /u I can read it on /v. And when I go look for >a file I created on as1d I find it at the beginning of the drive >- not down the back end where it should be. [more suff deleted...] You made the same misstake as I did. Dont't use the "d" partition, because it seems that it is used as a kind of DOS (arrrgh) partition i 386bsd. Set it as "unused" and use another one. By the way, you don't need a swap partition on the second disk... Be cool! /Paul.