Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising. > > (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to > > give a relevant answer) > > > > jerry > > Fair Enough, > > My question is 'how do I edit a disklabel?' I assume that I am supposed > to add an 'e' partition

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jason Dusek
> So, anyway, user questions should not be surprising. > (But please ask reasonably specific questions or it is hard to > give a relevant answer) > > jerry Fair Enough, My question is 'how do I edit a disklabel?' I assume that I am supposed to add an 'e' partition, but it seems that the c part

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > "man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive. > >=20 > > Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any > > sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing.= > =20 > > They could

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:24:33PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > "man disklabel" is pretty comprehensive. > > Yes. But, you have to read it together with man fdisk to make any > sense of it and even then the writing is rather convoluted and confusing. > They could both use a complete syst

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Jason Dusek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk > > to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about > > 'editing my label' as given in the handbook: > > > > # disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just create

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
Jason Dusek wrote: Hi, Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about 'editing my label' as given in the handbook: # disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created. is not something I really under

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-24 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi, Through a combination of this list's suggestions, I managed to get fdisk to successfully operate on my disk. Thanks. However, the step about 'editing my label' as given in the handbook: # disklabel -e da1s1 # Edit the disklabel just created. is not something I really understand. Where is som

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-21 Thread Malcolm Kay
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 boo

Re: Broken Disk

2004-05-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
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

Broken Disk

2004-05-21 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi, 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: # mount /dev/ad1e /mnt/backup operation