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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
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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