Bug 246604

Summary:	When the device is missing a filesystem, mount(8) cites the device as non-existent
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Mikhail Teterin <mi>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me	Keywords:	dogfood
Priority:	---
Version:	12.1-STABLE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Mikhail Teterin freebsd_committer

2020-05-20 14:40:21 UTC

When invoked to mount an existing device, that has no filesystem on it, mount claims the device itself does not exist:

% mount /dev/ada0f /mnt
mount: /dev/ada0f: No such file or directory

After running newfs on /dev/ada0f, the mount succeeds. The error-message should be more helpful...