Re: no partition entries for /dev/ad3

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:45:11 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Harti Brandt wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ecsd wrote:
> 
> e>I had already been able to go so far as to "disklabel -w -r ad3 auto".

This is in error and should have been:
fdisk -i -u /dev/ad3
[add a partition 1]
disklabel -r -w ad3s1 auto

he has a disklabel directly on the raw disk..
("Dangerously dedicated" mode)


> e>After doing this
> e>on a 4.X system I would then "disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1c", but /dev/ad3s1c
> e>does
> e>not exist, so I am stuck. Maybe there is a "rescan devices" command?
> e>
> e>fdisk thinks it has no work to do:
> e>
> e>******* Working on device /dev/ad3 *******
> e>[...]
> e>Information from DOS bootblock is:
> e>1: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
> e>    start 63, size 39102273 (19092 Meg), flag 80 (active)
> e>        beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
> e>        end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63
> e>2: <UNUSED>
> e>3: <UNUSED>
> e>4: <UNUSED>
> 
> In that case you should have a /dev/ad3s1. Have you?
> 
> harti
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