On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> Uhm, I thought disktab was only used by newfs and friends. At least
> on Ultrix, that's how it works. When it comes to actually talking

Oh.  Maybe I've been doing things wrong then.  I created a "free AUX 
partitition slice 3" with APS.  I ran the MacOS utiltity Makefs on it, 
then attempted to mount the drive:

mount /dev/sd1c /opt

But always was told that the disk could not be mounted, had bad superblock
counts, etc. . . . .fsck usually got an i/o error. I then attempted to run
disklabel on it, which grok'd because I did not have an entry in my
/etc/disktab file.  I wrote one, ran disklabel on the drive, then ran
newfs on the drive.  I was then able to: 

mount /dev/sd1c /opt,

So I wrote something appropriate in my /etc/fstab to mount the drive in 
the future.  Now on boot, I get a message about fictitious geometry, 
which seems pretty fair, all things considered.  It works though, and I 
don't get I/O errors on the drive.  

I started writing the disktab with information from diskpart, but later
scrapped that and just went for a simple geometry. 

Just sort of faked it all from manpages, the header of the disktab file 
and my ORA BSD 4.4 SMM, so I'm glad it worked at all.

> to the drive in the kernel, we go out and ask the drive itself. Since
> our partitioning is done by MacOS, we don't really need disktab,
> AFAIK.

Okay, so partitioning is done already, but why can't I see the drive?  
Maybe I need to specifiy that it create a /usr partition instead of a 
free partition?

I already have a 250MB Root & Usr partition on my 540MB drive, and have it 
mounted.  I just want to get the 80MB as an extra drive, since I'm 
getting low on space now.

BTW I installed both internal drives into the IIci!  Had to make the 
floppy external--used the 1m rainbow-ribbon floppy cable from an Apple II+, 
which works fine (the cable, not the II+). :-)

I noticed there seems to be an automount utility.  Is that working on 
MacBSD yet?  Does it only work for /home/ directories?

> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
> 

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