Subject: Re: Trying to mount ext2 USB disk ... getting "device not configured"...
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/23/2007 15:02:09
It was indeed /dev/sd0e ... :)
Thanks!
Now my NetBSD machine is also the SMB server... and I have
decommissioned a Linux box that was just serving files. :)
Gilles.
Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 07:21:45PM +0100, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
>
>> What does the disklabel say?
>>
>
> You get to the disklabel by running "disklabel sd0" as "root".
>
>
>> Depending on the disklabel, that's perhaps not /dev/sd0a but /dev/sd0e.
>>
>
> Very likely.
>
>
>> [no warranty, but the crux is the disklabel, not fdisk I think].
>>
>
> If a disk doesn't have a NetBSD disklabel the kernel will create one in
> memory using information from the MBR. The mapping should be:
>
> 1st primary partition -> /dev/[sw]d<n>e (e.g /dev/sd0e)
> 2nd primary partition -> /dev/[sw]d<n>f (e.g /dev/sd0f)
> 3rd primary partition -> /dev/[sw]d<n>g (e.g /dev/sd0g)
> 4th primary partition -> /dev/[sw]d<n>h (e.g /dev/sd0h)
>
> Kind regards
>
>
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