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From: Pascal.Gienger@uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD partitions on one disk
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Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> wrote:

: 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?

It would be better, yes, but it should also work like this. But you
are confusing slices and partitions... You have 2 slices for FreeBSD,
and each of them must have BSD partitions on it. For your first
slice, the installation program did do that for you. For your
second slice, you have to install a disklabel on it. It should be something
like

disklabel -w -r wd1s2 auto

After that you may edit your disklabel to make partitions on your
slice (disklabel -e ws1s2) or use the "c" partition which represents
the whole slice (be careful not to use the "d" partition, representing
your whole disk ;-) ).

So after you have installed a disklabel, a newfs /dev/rwd1s2c should work.

You may mount your partition then:

mount /dev/wd1s2c /some/where

Pascal
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