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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!139.85.52.101!hnssysb.hns.com!usenet From: "Kapil Chowksey (Jaeger)" <kchowksey@hss.hns.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problem with adding new filesystems Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:30:26 +0000 Organization: Hughes Software Systems Lines: 36 Message-ID: <330DB182.703313DE@hss.hns.com> References: <330D559B.41C67EA6@genesis4.sps.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: valhalla.hss.hns.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.1.59 i486) To: hai nguyen <hai@genesis4.sps.mot.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35866 hai nguyen wrote: > > Hello all, > I am currently running FBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP and would like to add a new > disk. I installed my new 1Gb IDE drive as a master drive on the second > IDE controller. Using the sysinstall utility program as suggested by the > FBSD FAQ, I created 4 partions ( 400M as DOSFS, 250M, 350M and 40M as > ufs ). Again using the sysinstall utility, I created 1 filesystem on > partition number 2, 2 filesystems on partition 3 and the last partition > is used as a swap filesystem. > > Checking the /dev directory, I saw the filesystems are created > accordingly ( wd2s2e, wd2s3e, wd2s3f and wd2s4b ). However when i tried > to mount any of these filesystem i got an error saying > "Incorrect super block." > Example : mount /dev/wd2s2e /mnt/src > /dev/wd2s2e on /mnt/src: Incorrect super block. did you do mkfs ? normally the sysintall should also do mkfs for you. I'd suggest running mkfs manually (ofcourse after reading the manpages). when I added an IDE disk to my fbsd 2.1.6, I did the foll. steps manually : 1. fdisk 2. mkfs 3. edit /etc/fstab that's it - it worked for me. "Of course, I'm speculating Wildly." -- Kapil Chowksey kchowksey@hss.hns.com