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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.postech.ac.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: disklabel woes with mixed SCSI/IDE disks Date: 17 Aug 1996 11:44:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 65 Message-ID: <4v4bac$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4urg7c$r3g@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E iyengar@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (Manu Iyengar) wrote: > However, disklabel from sysinstall hurls either because: > a) It wants something to mount at /, or > b) It can't mount something at /, since it's already in use. That's been a typical symptom for /stand/sysinstall on a 2.1 system. > I'm at a loss on what 'type' to provide disklabel from the command line. The > output from 'disklabel -r wd0s2' is below. This is probably hosed since I > tried various things. > --- disklabel -r wd0s2 --- > # /dev/rwd0s2: > type: ESDI > disk: wd0s2 > label: > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 63 > tracks/cylinder: 64 > sectors/cylinder: 4032 > cylinders: 610 > sectors/unit: 2459520 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds > drivedata: 0 > > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 2459520 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 609) > e: 2459520 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 609) > --- If your space is indeed 1200 MB, this label is already almost correct. You could run disklabel -e wd0s2 and edit the last line to: e: 2459520 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 which are suitable defaults for the file system parameters. Then, you can newfs -d0 /dev/rwd0s2e followed by mount /dev/wd0s2e /new/mount/point You may want to edit /etc/fstab to have the system mounting the new file system automatically at boot time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)