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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mounting another drve Date: 15 Jun 1996 18:43:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4pv081$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31BFD6A0.6BA9@dslab.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Ian Wilkinson <ian@dslab.com> wrote: > I have another in my machine that I want to mount. I have > created the partions, but it is not allowing me to mount it > at my mount point. any help? You have created the slices (which is not even a necessary step if the drive is all-FreeBSD), but not the partitions (which is always required). In order to do this, you have to disklabel it. You need to setup a disktab entry first. The most important value there is the total number of sectors in your slice. (The cylinder/head/ sector numbers must also be there, but their actual values are largely irrelevant if you supply the su# capability for the total number of sectors.) Once the partitions are there, you still need to newfs them before you can mount a file system on them. See also James Raynard's execellent explanation in this group. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)