Subject: Re: [Ext2 Mount] Newbie Question
To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@cse.iitd.ernet.in>
From: William Pomian <willish@free.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/21/2001 06:42:43
fdisk tell me that :
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1024 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
> 
> Partition table:
> 0: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>     start 63, size 8191953 (3999 MB), flag 0x80
> 	beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
> 	end: cylinder  548, head 155, sector 63
> 1: sysid 131 (Linux native)
>     start 8192016, size 81871776 (39976 MB), flag 0x0
> 	beg: cylinder  548, head 156, sector  1
> 	end: cylinder 1023, head 236, sector 63

So I add f:  as you told me :
>#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:  1091601       63     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0*- 1082)
>   b:  2099664  1091664       swap                        # (Cyl. 1083 - 3165)
>  c:  8191953       63     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0*- 8126)
>  d: 90069840        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 89354)
>  e:  5000688  3191328   System V                        # (Cyl. 3166 - 8126)
>  f: 81871776  8192016     ext2fs        0     0         

And when saving, disklabel tell me now :
> disklabel: line 27: warning, unknown filesystem type: ext2fs

And unfortunatly :
> root# mount_ext2fs /dev/wd0f /mnt/
> mount_ext2fs: /dev/wd0f on /mnt/: Device not configured

And when I re-edit disklabel I have :
>  f: 81871776  8192016     unused        0     0         # (Cyl. 8127 - 89348)

I can't let fsize and bsize fields empty. When I do that, disklabel tell me :
> disklabel: line 27: too few fields

I'm being mad...
Do you have a idee to solve my problem ?
I have the GENERIC kernel with ext2fs support.

Thanks for your really great explanation of disklabel.

Best regards,
William Pomian