no partition entries for /dev/ad3

[Julian Elischer]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ecsd wrote:

> Harti Brandt wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ecsd wrote:
> e>I had already been able to go so far as to "disklabel -w -r ad3 auto".
> e>After doing this on a 4.X system I would then "disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1c"
> e>but /dev/ad3s1c does not exist, so I am stuck.
> e>Maybe there is a "rescan devices" command?
>   
> e> fdisk thinks it has no work to do.
>  
> In that case you should have a /dev/ad3s1. Have you?
> harti
> 
> The chronology is that I booted the system, did the disklabel -w -r ad3 
> auto,
> turned around to disklabel -e /dev/ad3s1c (as I would normally do), and
> was told that /dev/ad3s1c did not exist. Then I wrote in here asking for 
> help.
> ad3s1c does not exist.

that's because you didn't do the fdisk before you did the disklabel.


a/ NEVER use the 'c' partition as the target.
b/ since you never created a ad3s1 what makes you thing it will be
subdivided? You subdivided ad3 so that is what you should use
with disklabel -e.




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