On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:48:18AM -0500, Edward F. Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
| Ladies and Gentlemen:
|
| I wanted to use a 4GB thumb drive to move a complete partition from
| one system to another, and needed to get a ffs volume on it. It was
| originally fat32.
|
| Ran disklabel -E, said to use the whole disk, no luck. Tried fdisk,
| and now even less luck: both WXP and OpenBSD can tell there's a device
| there, but neither seems to know what to do with it.
You'll need to use both fdisk and disklabel. First create a 'DOS
partition', then create a disklabel in that DOS partition. Afterwards,
you should be able to newfs and subsequently mount the BSD partitions
from the disklabel.
| Dmesg and the errors from both of today's attempts at disklabel are
| attached.
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Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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