Subject: Re: mounting partitions
To: Vojko Kercan <vojkokercan@gmail.com>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/05/2006 13:28:46
First of all, there is really no point in your partitions 1 and 2. They
serve no purpose at all, except to confuse you.
Second, your partitions h and i are indeed small, but I guess that's the
way you've chosen to have them, and so they will be. I suspect that you
believe that they should match your partitions 1 and 2. They can do that
if you want to, but it's not done automatically, even though it seems
you think it would.
Start over. If you absolutely want a bios partition table, create just
one big partition that holds the whole part of the disk that you intend
to use for NetBSD, and after that, basically ignore the bios partition
table.
After that, create the NetBSD disklabel, with the partition layout that
you'd like. Then you do the newfs of all the partitions, and then you
mount them.
Johnny
Vojko Kercan wrote:
> Below is my partition table (partition 0 is wher NetBSD 3.0 is installed):
>
> 0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
> start 63, size 188747622 (92162 MB, Cyls 0-11749), Active
> 1: NetBSD (sysid 169)
> start 188747685, size 62926605 (30726 MB, Cyls 11749-15666)
> 2: NetBSD (sysid 169)
> start 251674290, size 69998670 (34179 MB, Cyls 15666-20023/55/1)
> 3: <UNUSED>
>
> Disklabel output is in attachment (smaller output is below):
>
> 16 partitions:
> # size offset fstype
> a: 16778160 63 4.2BSD
> b: 4195296 16778223 swap
> c: 188747622 63 unused
> d: 321672960 0 unused
> e: 83886768 20973519 4.2BSD
> f: 31457664 104860287 4.2BSD
> g: 52429734 136317951 4.2BSD
> h: 16384 188747685 4.2BSD
> i: 16384 251674290 4.2BSD
>
> /etc/fstab output:
>
> /dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1
> /dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/wd0e /usr ffs rw 1 2
> /dev/wd0f /var ffs rw 1 2
> /dev/wd0g /home ffs rw 1 2
> /dev/wd0b /tmp mfs rw,-s=263088
> kernfs /kern kernfs rw
> procfs /proc procfs rw,noauto
>
> Judging by above outputs, to mount the remaining partitions (1 and 2) I should:
> mount /dev/wd0h and mount /dev/wd0i, yet mount produces an error
> "incorrect super block".
>
> Am I looking at the things correctly? What am I missing here? Isn't it
> strange that partitions h and i are so small? Is this OK?
>
> Many thanks in advance, Vojko.
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