update to 8.0-RELEASE --> partition gone

Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt at mac.com
Wed Dec 16 17:18:15 UTC 2009


On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:27 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote:
>> 
> gee, thanks!
> That worked.
> root at talisker:/root# ls /dev/ad8*
> /dev/ad8    /dev/ad8s1  /dev/ad8s1a
> root at talisker:/root# mount /dev/ad8s1a /BACKUP/
> root at talisker:/root# umount /BACKUP/     
> 
> but, hm, whats that?
> root at talisker:/root# fsck /dev/ad8s1a
> fsck: Could not determine filesystem type

I minor inconvenience for the time being. fsck hasn't
been thought about getting partition types from gpart,
so that it can do a best-effort attempt at guessing
which variant to run. For now, you need to be explicit:

	fsck -t ufs /dev/ad0s1a

Alternatively, add an entry to /etc/fstab.

FYI,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com





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