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From: jeays@statcan.ca (Mike Jeays)
Subject: Two FreeBSD partitions on one disk
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 22:27:09 GMT
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I set up my disk with two FreeBSD partitions (500 MB each), and a DOS/Windows
partition. FreeBSD has been installed on the first and runs successfully,
but I didn't run 'newfs' on the second partition, which I intend to mount.
Disk name: wd1 FDISK Partition Editor
DISK Geometry: 826 cyls/64 heads/63 sectors
Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 1020033 1020095 wd1s1 3 freebsd 165 C
1020096 1020096 2040191 wd1s2 3 freebsd 165
2040192 1290240 3330431 wd1s3 2 fat 6
3330432 2016 3332447 - 6 unused 0
If I try to mount /dev/wd1s2, I am told the superblock is bad - clearly
because I have not run newfs on it. How can I do this, or would I be
better off to start over with a single 1 GB partition?
Various attempts such as "newfs /dev/wd1s2" don't work, and I think
I may wipe out the whole thing if I experiment without quite understanding
what I am doing.
(I got into this mess because I had trouble with an earlier disk
that was defective, but which led me to believe that partitions this large
would not work.)
Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.