slice problem

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wonslung

This is driving me nuts...i've always used sysinstall or sade to mess with slices....i have a machine that just isn't letting me do this...it's driving me insane....

it's freebsd 7.2

i didn't forget to set
Code: 
sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

currently, i have
Code: 
Part      Mount          Size Newfs   Part      Mount          Size Newfs
----      -----          ---- -----   ----      -----          ---- -----
ad4s1d    <none>        512MB /tmp
ad4s1b    swap         4042MB SWAP
ad4s1a    <none>       1024MB /
ad4s1e    <none>       2048MB /usr


and about 350 gb of empty space. I want to add some more slices but no matter what i do with sysinstall or sade it just gives me an error like this:

Code: 
Error mounting /dev/ad4s1f on /usr/obj : No such file or directory

i've done this quite a few times....i'm totally lost as to what i'm doing wrong.
 
you'd think that was the problem...but it isn't

i've tried it with or without the dir, it gives the same error....it's being a *beep**beep**beep**beep**beep*
 
Does the slice information exist on disk already?

You can check this with bsdlabel (i.e. bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1).

You should see an entry similar to "f: <size> <offset> <fstype> ....."

If it does, you can newfs and mount by hand. If it doesn't exist, then you can certainly edit the label by hand specifying the slice size/offset you need, then proceed to newfs,mount by hand.
 
And /usr/obj exists by default unless wonslung deleted it.

Use fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs instead. It's clearly documented in the handbook.
 
yah, that's what i just did...never used it before....i'm just confused as to why it's giving me trouble...i've been using SADE for this for quite some time..this is the first trouble i've ever seen
 
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