Bug 34074
| Summary: | Handbook section 12.3 -- Adding Disks incomplete instructions for using disklabel | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Cameron Watters <cameron> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
Cameron Watters
2002-01-20 06:10:02 UTC
Sorry for the bluntness, but, AFAIK, all requests by /stand/sysinstall are normally completed without any errors. The man page, does mention about the -W option, and its actions, but I've never found the need to apply this parameter to disklabel(8). Does this disklabel(8) issue arise only in certain conditions? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ HP> Sorry for the bluntness, but, AFAIK, all requests by HP> /stand/sysinstall are normally completed without any HP> errors. Quoting from the handbook: "Ignore any errors from Sysinstall that it could not mount the new partition." This, in fact, is exactly what happens. Further, when I actually ran disklablel -W and THEN ran sysinstall, it didn't give me this error message. HP> The man page, does mention about the -W option, and HP> its actions, but I've never found the need to apply HP> this parameter to disklabel(8). I wouldn't have submitted this unless I hadn't tried for an hour to get the Handbook's instructions to work correctly. HP> Does this disklabel(8) issue arise only in certain HP> conditions? I should clarify that this only happens when using sysinstall on a system that has already been setup once. As the handbook directs, I was using it to add additional disks to an existing installation of FreeBSD. However, that is exactly the activity this portion of the handbook is trying to cover. --cameron Hello to all involved in this pr, fellow members of the doc team, anyone else who is interested ;) Tonight, I threw an extra hard disk into my system (4.5) and ran sysinstall(8) to configure the drive. On my 4.5 system, however, the 'Partition' option is not there. At least, under the Configure option. I also want to note that, I used: Configure > Fdisk > Label although Label fed me some error messages, a simple exit and restart of sysinstall(8) and I was back into the label editor. (Handbook is incorrect about the "ignore any errors from sysinstall" because it in fact does not write the label, and spits "DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype" during the attempted w process, and if you ignore, you will not get labels at all) This time, I obtained no error messages when doing the write operation. After a few diags, I have noticed that using the disklabel(8) utility is not required, however, you seem to be required to exit sysinstall(8) before you can use the Label editor. The point in case is not that disklabel is required, nor that if you use sysinstall(8) apperently you are required to restart before using the Label editor, but that the Handbook apperently has incorrect information and a patch is required. When I submit a patch, I will also try to accomplish a grammer cleanup on more parts of the handbook... Anyone who has noticed a difference in their use of sysinstall(8) for adding drives is requested to come forward and talk with me ;) Hello to all involved in this pr, fellow members of the doc team, anyone else who is interested [;)] Tonight, I threw an extra hard disk into my system (4.5) and ran sysinstall(8) to configure the drive. On my 4.5 system, however, the 'Partition' option is not there. At least, under the Configure option. I also want to note that, I used: Configure > Fdisk > Label although Label fed me some error messages, a simple exit and restart of sysinstall(8) and I was back into the label editor. (Handbook is incorrect about the "ignore any errors from sysinstall" because it in fact does not write the label, and spits "DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype" during the attempted w process, and if you ignore, you will not get labels at all) This time, I obtained no error messages when doing the write operation. After a few diags, I have noticed that using the disklabel(8) utility is not required, however, you seem to be required to exit sysinstall(8) before you can use the Label editor. The point in case is not that disklabel is required, nor that if you use sysinstall(8) apperently you are required to restart before using the Label editor, but that the Handbook apperently has incorrect information and a patch is required. When I submit a patch, I will also try to accomplish a grammer cleanup on more parts of the handbook... Anyone who has noticed a difference in their use of sysinstall(8) for adding drives is requested to come forward and talk with me please. -- Tom Rhodes State Changed From-To: open->closed Merged with and closed by 34953. Thanks! |
