Re: Odd Partition/Newfs Question
I don't think I've done any harm, but I wanted another opinion or two. Added an additional hard drive to an existing setup. Then gave the following commands: bsdlabel -w /dev/ad2 newfs -U -O 2 /dev/ad2 mount /dev/ad2 /mnt/ad2 then went about the business of moving and rearranging for having the new disk. After the machine was back in production, I saw the odd mount point. My question is, have I just ended up ignoring the bsdlabel command and I'm using the entire disk as a raw disk or is there some set of reasons I should re-bsdlabel and newfs /dev/ad2a this time. What do you mean 'odd mount point'. You don't give any information that would make it seem odd. What does doing 'bsdlabel ad2' show you? Does it seem happy? Does newfs seem happy? What you have done is create a dangerously dedicated disk, but that shouldn't be a problem.Usually, I would do an fdisk and create slices and a partition within the first slice so my addressing would look more like /dev/ad2s1a. But, I don't think that should cause a problem if you only use the whole disk for FreeBSD. jerry John. -- - John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd Partition/Newfs Question
Added an additional hard drive to an existing setup. Then gave the following commands: bsdlabel -w /dev/ad2 newfs -U -O 2 /dev/ad2 mount /dev/ad2 /mnt/ad2 then went about the business of moving and rearranging for having the new disk. After the machine was back in production, I saw the odd mount point. My question is, have I just ended up ignoring the bsdlabel command and I'm using the entire disk as a raw disk or is there some set of reasons I should re-bsdlabel and newfs /dev/ad2a this time. What do you mean 'odd mount point'. You don't give any information that would make it seem odd. What does doing 'bsdlabel ad2' show you? Does it seem happy? Does newfs seem happy? I didn't include output from bsdlabel, as it didn't show anything unexpected %bsdlabel /dev/ad2 # /dev/ad2: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 490234736 16unused0 0 c: 4902347520unused0 0 # raw part, don't edit which looked right, the odd part was the fact that I issued newfs /dev/ad2 in place of the usual newfs /dev/ad2a So it looked to me as I just ignored the bsdlabel command and newfs'd the entire disk starting at an offset of 0 instaid of the usual offset of 16 With this being a non boot disk, I wasn't worried about it, I'm expecting that the bsdlabel information will get overwritten by the directory structure sooner or later. Except for forgetting that I have a device with a filesystem and no slices/partitions my concern is that there is some internal bookkeeping issue that I'm not aware of that will cause trouble if I don't have valid label information on the disk. Oh, I tested it with another disk, the directory entries will overwrite the label information, no real surprise there. John. -- - John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd Partition/Newfs Question
I don't think I've done any harm, but I wanted another opinion or two. Added an additional hard drive to an existing setup. Then gave the following commands: bsdlabel -w /dev/ad2 newfs -U -O 2 /dev/ad2 mount /dev/ad2 /mnt/ad2 then went about the business of moving and rearranging for having the new disk. After the machine was back in production, I saw the odd mount point. My question is, have I just ended up ignoring the bsdlabel command and I'm using the entire disk as a raw disk or is there some set of reasons I should re-bsdlabel and newfs /dev/ad2a this time. John. -- - John F Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
