Strange disk problems make the system lock up

Godwin Stewart gstewart at bonivet.net
Wed Feb 16 08:59:30 PST 2005


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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:45:40 -0600, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I have two large disks:
> > 
> > /dev/ad2       144G    124G    9.2G    93%    /mnt/sp1604n
> > /dev/ad3       226G    202G    5.2G    98%    /mnt/wd2500pb
> 
> Did you use disklabel on these disks (/dev/ad2s1 and /dev/ad3s1) to
> create a partition on the slice?

The above looks like an excerpt of `df`, meaning that not only was bsdlabel 
not used, but neither was fdisk. That could be a problem for some things 
that at least expect a partition table somewhere.

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