How does one tell sysinstall to use an existing disk that is
already formatted?
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
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On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:56:17 -0600, Martin McCormick
mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:
How does one tell sysinstall to use an existing disk that is
already formatted?
If I interpret your question correctly, you are intending to
ask how sysinstall can install on an already sliced, partitioned
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:56:17PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
How does one tell sysinstall to use an existing disk that is
already formatted?
It should come up in the list of available drives.
Just select it and proceed. It will overwrite the part that
you tell it too. The most likely
Polytropon writes:
If I interpret your question correctly, you are intending to
ask how sysinstall can install on an already sliced, partitioned
Correct.
and formatted disk; is this correct?
You chose Custom for the installation. In the partition
editor, you assign the the located
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:31:22 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl
wrote:
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:38:14AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
2) Create the geli device /dev/daXsYP.eli, and then create a label on th=
at,
yielding /dev/label/bar. [not sure what the utility of this is, since=
the
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:08:00AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
Why is that stored in the last sector of the device, rather than in the
key file? What is the purpose of the key file if not to hold that type of
information?
All geom(4) providers use their last sector to store metadata;
On 1/14/10, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:
I used glabel label to label each of the file systems I have on
external
disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to geli attach any
of
the GELI-encrypted file systems. The system is FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE. Is
there
a way
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:34:31 +0100
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:08:00AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
Why is that stored in the last sector of the device, rather
than in the key file? What is the purpose of the key file if not
to hold that type of
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:38:14AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
2) Create the geli device /dev/daXsYP.eli, and then create a label on that,
yielding /dev/label/bar. [not sure what the utility of this is, since the
label will only appear after the geil provider has been attached]
of the Handbook.
I have a new 1 TB drive that I will soon connect to the system and begin
creating file systems. I will make gzipped image files with dd(1) of the
damaged partitions and store them on the new drive for a while in case a
workable idea turns up.
Since the partitions are encrypted
should contain a
little hint for those of us with old GELI partitions without auto-backups
of metadata?
I have a new 1 TB drive that I will soon connect to the system and begin
creating file systems. I will make gzipped image files with dd(1) of the
damaged partitions and store them on the new
1 TB drive that I will soon connect to the system and b=
egin
creating file systems. I will make gzipped image files with dd(1) of the
damaged partitions and store them on the new drive for a while in case a
workable idea turns up.
Since the partitions are encrypted, don't bother with gzip
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:55:35 +0300 Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru
wrote:
Thanks so much for responding so fast!
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:31:55 -0600 (CST) Scott Bennett wrote:
hellas# geli attach -k work.key /dev/label/work
geli: Cannot read metadata from /dev/label/work: Invalid argument.
Scott Bennett wrote:
I used glabel label to label each of the file systems I have on external
disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to geli attach any of
the GELI-encrypted file systems. The system is FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE.
Hmm, did you say you had geli-encrypted drives
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:30:00 +0100 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org
wrote:
Scott Bennett wrote:
I used glabel label to label each of the file systems I have on
external
disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to geli attach any
of
the GELI-encrypted file systems
Scott Bennett wrote:
As noted above, that would not work because then the label would not
be readable at boot time.
Yes it would. What you would have is a nested configuration, geli within
a label.
The label would be read when the device is present, then you would be
able to attach
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:31:55AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
I used glabel label to label each of the file systems I have on
external
disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to geli attach any of
the GELI-encrypted file systems. The system is FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:42:32 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:31:55AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
I used glabel label to label each of the file systems I have on ex=
ternal
disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to geli attach a=
ny
I used glabel label to label each of the file systems I have on external
disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to geli attach any of
the GELI-encrypted file systems. The system is FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE. Is there
a way to get this to work? Or have I just lost everything
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:31:55 -0600 (CST) Scott Bennett wrote:
hellas# geli attach -k work.key /dev/label/work
geli: Cannot read metadata from /dev/label/work: Invalid argument.
Did you try to mount it via geom consumer (/dev/daX)?
Can you show apropriate glabel list?
--
WBR, bsam
| ad0s1
0 3 1 64 13.6 1 202.3 19.4| ad0s2
0 26 5392 10.5 213182.55.8| ad8s1
0 5 32248.7 1 200.3 16.9| ad8s2
specifically, I am intested in the file systems in ad0s2 and ad8s2.
Thanks if you can
Hi,
I'm getting ready to move forward on enabling gmirror on my churches website
server (FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE p4). I used defaults during the install (most
importantly for this, the file system defaults). I've read in the manual
pages that the data for the mirror is contained in the last
On Friday 28 November 2008 18:08:19 Andrew Falanga wrote:
I'm getting ready to move forward on enabling gmirror on my churches
website server (FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE p4). I used defaults during the
install (most importantly for this, the file system defaults). I've read
in the manual pages
I'm getting ready to move forward on enabling gmirror on my churches website
server (FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE p4). I used defaults during the install (most
importantly for this, the file system defaults). I've read in the manual
pages that the data for the mirror is contained in the last sector of
is your partition size multiply of fragment size without remainder?
if not (quite a big chance) at least one sector at the end is unused and
never be.
so go on, but then fix disklabel, as c partition is 1 sector smaller.
of course - boot from livecd to do this.
Thanks both Mel and
I can use dump(8) an active, mounted file systems via the -L flag.
According to the manual, this first creates a snapshot of the file
system, to the .snap directory of the file systems root. What if the
file system to be dumped, does not have sufficient free-space to store
a snapshot? Can I
Before I try this on a live server...
I can use dump(8) an active, mounted file systems via the -L flag.
According to the manual, this first creates a snapshot of the file
system, to the .snap directory of the file systems root. What if the
file system to be dumped, does not have sufficient free
Modulok wrote:
Before I try this on a live server...
I can use dump(8) an active, mounted file systems via the -L flag.
According to the manual, this first creates a snapshot of the file
system, to the .snap directory of the file systems root. What if the
file system to be dumped, does not have
I would like to contribute my knowledge of several otherwise ar= cane
file systems and wanted your take on modifying the FS types with other
values. Is there a central authority for all file system types that
these should be registered with first or should I simply choose values
On 6/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to contribute my knowledge of several otherwise ar cane
file systems and wanted your take on modifying the FS types with other
values. Is there a central authority for all file system types that
these should
Hi,
I have a directory /net/store. This directory is exported to all
machines on my network.
I have a sub-directory /net/store/photos. That too is exported to
all machines on my network.
What I want is that when I mount /net/store from another machine,
the contents of /net/store/photos
I have a directory /net/store. This directory is exported to all machines on
my network.
I have a sub-directory /net/store/photos. That too is exported to all
machines on my network.
What I want is that when I mount /net/store from another machine, the
contents of /net/store/photos too be
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
I have a directory /net/store. This directory is exported to all machines
on my network.
I have a sub-directory /net/store/photos. That too is exported to all
machines on my network.
What I want is that when I mount /net/store from
the default way, I can access the exported filesystems as
/host/server/net/store[/photos] -- which is not what I want. Rather, I
want to
access the exported /net/store[/photos] filesystems under the
/net/store[/photos] mount points of the client -- and I don't want any
other exported file
Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were talking
about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on
is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being done. For
example, at home, my PC has 2 80gb drives. One for Windows
On Mar 29, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote:
Both drives are similar in capability. They are both 7200 rpm
drives, etc.
So what is so much different about NTFS from FFS?
All sorts of things. :-)
Are the file systems
really that different that MS's system is simply dog slow
Andrew Falanga wrote:
Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were
talking
about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on
is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being done.
For
example, at home, my PC has 2 80gb
On 3/29/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Falanga wrote:
Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were
talking
about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered
on
is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:25:57PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote:
Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were talking
about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on
is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being done
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:24:50 -0600
Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a server which I am considering upgrading from 4.11 to 6.2.
Besides the operating system disk (which contains all of the
expected partitions such as /, /usr, /var, and /tmp), There's a
large data disk on the system
I have a server which I am considering upgrading from 4.11 to 6.2.
Besides the operating system disk (which contains all of the
expected partitions such as /, /usr, /var, and /tmp), There's a
large data disk on the system containing useful data that I'd like
to put back online as soon as the
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Brett Glass wrote:
I have a server which I am considering upgrading from 4.11 to 6.2. Besides the
operating system disk (which contains all of the expected partitions such as /,
/usr, /var, and /tmp), There's a large data disk on the system containing
useful data that I'd
flags and
attributes are what I can think of right now.)
There is not really any significant gains to be had from converting the
existing file systems from UFS1 to UFS2.
FreeBSD 6.2 should work just fine with the older disk.
--
Insert your favourite quote here.
Erik Trulsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED
for very large disks ( 1 TB) and some support for extra flags and
attributes are what I can think of right now.)
There is not really any significant gains to be had from converting
the
existing file systems from UFS1 to UFS2.
FreeBSD 6.2 should work just fine with the older disk.
Sorry. I meant
I have a drive that gained a bad sector, detected by smartctl. I have
the LBA number of the sector. The drive is one large UFS partition.
Is it possible to determine where in the filesystem the sector lies?
Mostly, what file is corrupted by the bad sector?
Thanks,
Mike
Hi:
I want to create encrypted memory filesystems for backup, and selective
data destruction: If I have data from different users say, each user's
backup will be stored as different encrypted file systems. Then I can
selectively destroy data from one user by throwing away the key.
Now, how do I
On 8/14/05, John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't
work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any
data to the dump device (this on an up to date
On 8/14/05, John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't
work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any
data to the dump device (this on an up to date RELENG_5
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I tried to dump a 600gb file system a few days ago and it didn't
work. dump went compute bound during phase III and never wrote any
data to the dump device (this on an up to date RELENG_5 box). - is
this a known problem? Are there any work
Hello,
I'm sorry if this sounds dumb, but I'm looking for a kind of bg flag
(from mount_nfs) for my local file-systems. The problem is that I
frequently pull hard drives out of my headless file-server, but forget
to edit fstab _before_ it. So the system won't boot until I connect a
monitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,all,
I really want to know if there is a way to install freebsd from hard
disk. This old laptop doesn't contain a floppy drive, And I didn't get a
CD burner either. Certainly, The rubbishy computer couldn't be boot use
pxe kind of thing. I've searched google
Date: 05 Dec 2004 12:02:26 -0500
From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Isn't there a way to install freebsd from hard disk with
only a bootable grub? (all file systems are ext3)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,all,
I really want to know if there is a way to install
Hi,all,
I really want to know if there is a way to install freebsd from hard
disk. This old laptop doesn't contain a floppy drive, And I didn't get a
CD burner either. Certainly, The rubbishy computer couldn't be boot use
pxe kind of thing. I've searched google and I have done what I can do
for
hi folks,
well, i new to freebsd but i didn't find help in the newbelist. and
since i got this daily message from the list i think this is the right
place to go.
i am at the point to change my /etc/fstab file. well, there i can set
two numbers 1 for root file system; 2 for another ufs file
In the last episode (Aug 27), Marcel.lautenbach said:
well, i new to freebsd but i didn't find help in the newbelist. and
since i got this daily message from the list i think this is the
right place to go.
i am at the point to change my /etc/fstab file. well, there i can set
two numbers 1
Guten Tag Dan Nelson,
am Freitag, 27. August 2004 um 21:37 schrieben Sie:
DN In the last episode (Aug 27), Marcel.lautenbach said:
well, i new to freebsd but i didn't find help in the newbelist. and
since i got this daily message from the list i think this is the
right place to go.
i am at
Marcel,
and i am stick with another prolbem. so far i've read that the md
driver can be used to mound a file in an filesystem. before i could
use mdconfig. buti don't have mdconfig on my branch (4.10)
On 4.x you can use md, but it's easier to use mfs. In the vfstab, you
simply put the
At 2004-05-12T05:31:41Z, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a fundamental problem of having the following all be read-only
file systems, with the noted exceptions?
With the exception of /var (that you mentioned in another post), you should
be fine.
note that users
On May 12, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote:
At 2004-05-12T05:31:41Z, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a fundamental problem of having the following all be
read-only
file systems, with the noted exceptions?
With the exception of /var (that you mentioned
Hi All
I am playing around on 5.2-CURRENT and am setting up a system to run
various programs inside of jails. Including allowing the users to ssh
in etc.
Is there a fundamental problem of having the following all be read-only
file systems, with the noted exceptions?
/bin
/sbin
/libexec
/lib
file systems, with the noted exceptions?
/bin
/sbin
/libexec
/lib
/usr
/var
note: /usr/local would not be readonly and /var/tmp would not be
readonly
Sorry, the whole /var is not readonly. Sorry, I misread my notes...
Chad
It seems to work in my test jails but I was wondering about hidden
What does the warning file system full mean?
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:08:35AM -0700, John Klein wrote:
What does the warning file system full mean?
That you have a file system which is full up.
Cheers,
Matthew
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:08:35 -0700, John Klein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What does the warning file system full mean?
That whatever you are doing has caused you to run out of room.
Jud
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Hello all,
I am trying to build a FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-i386 based live cd and I am having
trouble getting the filesystems mounted. The kernel boots but then tells me
that it cannot find the root file system. From what I have read it appears
that I need to make a memory filesystem to load part
On Sunday, 9 March 2003 at 20:15:32 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Pete wrote:
Generally, one cannot boot from a vinum based-device, unless you are
only doing RAID-1 mirroring.
You can have a Vinum root file system as long as at least one plex is
concatenated from a single subdisk.
I'm familar
On 2002-12-13 13:39, Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's kinda what I'm wondering ... is it just that nobody has updated the
man page since '94 ... from looking at the sources, ther have been mods to
it since then:
If you're
Morning ...
I'm trying to figure out a way of sharing, as an example, /usr/X11R6
across several jail'd environments, but in such a way that if one of them
installs an extra package under that directory structure, its only visible
to that jail , and not the others ...
As a better example
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:01:09AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Morning ...
I'm trying to figure out a way of sharing, as an example, /usr/X11R6
across several jail'd environments, but in such a way that if one of them
installs an extra package under that directory structure, its only
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Marcus Reid wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:01:09AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Morning ...
I'm trying to figure out a way of sharing, as an example, /usr/X11R6
across several jail'd environments, but in such a way that if one of them
installs an extra
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:32:28AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Marcus Reid wrote:
Sounds like you're looking for something like unionfs. Unfortunately,
it doesn't work (even in -CURRENT) and if it did I don't know if it
could be made to work across jails. But the
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Marcus L. Reid wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:32:28AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Marcus Reid wrote:
Sounds like you're looking for something like unionfs. Unfortunately,
it doesn't work (even in -CURRENT) and if it did I don't know if it
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's kinda what I'm wondering ... is it just that nobody has updated the
man page since '94 ... from looking at the sources, ther have been mods to
it since then:
If you're referring to the manpage date which gets displayed with the
manpage, you
Hi again :-)
Just some filesystem questions.
What filesystem does FreeBSD use for disks (1.44mb and 120 mb). In
windows they use ms-dos, but my guess is that we don't use FFS for
disks? and how do I format a disk to our filesystem?
Why is it what we don't have to fragment our hard-disks all
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:55:31PM +0200, Socketd wrote:
Hi again :-)
Just some filesystem questions.
What filesystem does FreeBSD use for disks (1.44mb and 120 mb). In
windows they use ms-dos, but my guess is that we don't use FFS for
disks? and how do I format a disk to our filesystem?
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