Re: question on mounting a filesystem...

2005-08-10 Thread Tom Cosgrove
mojo fms 9-Aug-05 21:42 I ran fdisk and disklabel, im not splitting up the disks they are just as large as their size allows. They were both used running windows 98 which is why i fdisked to a6 format, then ran newfs /dev/wd1a and newfs /dev/wd2a .. both times it built the file system and

question on mounting a filesystem...

2005-08-09 Thread mojo fms
I have not seen this error before so i was wondering if i might of forgotten something with setting up these two new drives. iris# mount /dev/wd1a /mnt mount_ffs: /dev/wd1a on /mnt: Inappropriate file type or format Any help is apprechated. Thanks

Re: question on mounting a filesystem...

2005-08-09 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: mojo fms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have not seen this error before so i was wondering if i might of forgotten something with setting up these two new drives. iris# mount /dev/wd1a /mnt mount_ffs: /dev/wd1a on /mnt: Inappropriate file type or format fdisk? disklabel? newfs? kernel?

Re: question on mounting a filesystem...

2005-08-09 Thread mojo fms
I ran fdisk and disklabel, im not splitting up the disks they are just as large as their size allows. They were both used running windows 98 which is why i fdisked to a6 format, then ran newfs /dev/wd1a and newfs /dev/wd2a .. both times it built the file system and the super blocks just fine.

Re: question on mounting a filesystem...

2005-08-09 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:42:23PM -0700, mojo fms wrote: I ran fdisk and disklabel... The output of: fdisk wd1 fdisk wd2 disklabel wd1 disklabel wd2 would be helpful.