On Fri, 7 May 2010, krad wrote:
FYI happened on 2nd box as well but I least it didnt catch me out this time 8). It seems that pre freebsd-8 it is permissible to use format <dev>s1[a-h] , however in freebsd-8+ to you are forced to use the format <dev>[a-h].
I have noted peculiarities also in this move (as noted above: 8.0-RELEASE upgrade -- no files visible), but different ones from what you are seeing. I have begun to suspect that part of the issue is that my drives at one time were set up in "dangerously dedicated" mode, but later changed to "slice-based" mode. It may be that there are still sectors near the beginning of the disk with old information in them. Currently I have one disk remaining from the old setup, for which I only get /dev entries produced for the device, and for partition 'a' (ie, /dev/ad10, /dev/ad10a), however if accessed from 7.2, I can see and mount /dev/ad10s1[a,d-g]. Might your disks have similar "old" information in the first track (but not in the first sector), or do you refer to a new disk, or one to which a number of sectors of zeros was written? Thanks for the info, A. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"