On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:23:09AM +1100, Brett wrote:
> On 01/16/11 09:25, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
> >New disk for backups (1TB, first 250G NTFS for a Windows box, 500G ffs,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >remainder unpartitioned, so:
> >
>
> >
> >16 partitions:
> ># size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> > a: 1024015040 512007616 4.2BSD 4096 32768 1
> > c: 1953525168 0 unused
> > i: 512007552 63 NTFS
> >
> >Mount attempt:
> >
> >$sudo mount_ffs /dev/sd0a /TB
> >Password:
> >mount_ffs: /dev/sd0a on /TB: Invalid argument
> >
> >/TB exists, permissions are 777, owned root:wheel.
> >
> >The NTFS partition was created first, since WIndows snivels about that
> >sort of thing. What am I messing up?
> >
> >
> From disklabel(5):
>
> "By convention, the `a' partition of the boot disk is the root
^^^^^^^^^
> partition, and the `b' partition of the boot disk is the swap
> partition, but all other letters can be used in any order for any
> other partitions as desired."
>
> Try using a letter after c in the alphabet when creating your disklabel.
that's not the problem.
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