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From: paul@tvt-k (Paul Pries)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: HELP.. Disklabel, Disktab, newfs problems
Message-ID: <1992Nov1.181354.231@tvt-k>
Date: 1 Nov 92 18:13:54 GMT
References: <1992Nov1.195837.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Organization: >Televerket Utbildning, Utf
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nmurrayr@cc.curtin.edu.au (Ron Murray) writes:

>Help!  I have ground to a halt with problems in making and mounting
>a second SCSI drive. I am a unix newbie so it's probably me. 

[stuff deleted]

>memtel # newfs /dev/ras1a
>memtel # newfs /dev/ras1d
>memtel # df
>Filesystem 512-blks    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/as0a    625246  390924  171796    69%    /

>memtel # mount /dev/as1a /u
>memtel # mount /dev/as1d /v
>memtel # df
>Filesystem 512-blks    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/as0a    625246  390924  171796    69%    /
>/dev/as1a      9214       2    8290     0%    /u
>/dev/as1d      9214       2    8290     0%    /v

>See how I always get whatever partition I last newfsed?  If I
>create a file on /u I can read it on /v.  And when I go look for
>a file I created on as1d I find it at the beginning of the drive
>- not down the back end where it should be.
[more suff deleted...]

You made the same misstake as I did.
Dont't use the "d" partition, because it seems that it is used
as a kind of DOS (arrrgh) partition i 386bsd.
Set it as "unused" and use another one. By the way, you don't
need a swap partition on the second disk...

Be cool!
/Paul.