On Friday 21 May 2004 22:26, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:36:11AM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote: > > I am trying to put a new disk on my system. I read the description of > > the process in FreeBSD Unleashed and apparently I misunderstood it, > > because I ended up installing a boot manager on the new disk. Now I can > > not mount it - I get error messages like: > > Presence of absence of a boot manager on the drive should make any > difference at all once the system is up and running. > > > # mount /dev/ad1e /mnt/backup > > operation not permitted > > /dev/ad1e is a very odd device name to be using. As far as I remember > that's a backwards compatability thing from changes that were made > somewhere around the FreeBSD-3.x timeframe. You probably want > /dev/ad1s1e >
Yes, but at least upto FreeBSD-4.9 /dev/ad1e is understood and likely to be present. I believe it is the e-partition on the first BSD slice on the disk whatever slice that might be. The error message is not the one usually reported for a non-existant device; but when the operator has insufficient privilege. For the OP you (normally) need to be root to mount disks. Malcolm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"