Re: [9fans] plan9port venti FreeBSD

[Serge Gagnon <serge.gagnon@b2b2c.ca>]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:43:47 -0500
Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> > First of all, I would like to know how can I create a venti
> > partition with the FreeBSD fdisk (the number of the partition like
> > 165 for FreeBSD) ?
> 
> You can use whatever partition number you like.
> You will need more than one partition, since arenas
> and data are kept separate.  Alternately, because
> disk partitioning is such a pain, the Unix venti
> supports an alternate syntax filename:lo-hi,
> which selects a subpartition of the named file.
> So /dev/hda:0-10G is the first 10 gigabytes of /dev/hda.
> 

I can't run fmtisect or fmtarenas directly on partition without this
error:

; sudo /usr/local/plan9/bin/venti/fmtarenas -b 8192
arenas0. /dev/ad2:0-10G 
err 0: can't determine size of
partition /dev/ad2 /usr/local/plan9/bin/venti/fmtarenas: can't open
partition /dev/ad2:0-10G: can't determine size of partition /dev/ad2
[status 1] ; 

I also tried to make a partition (/dev/as2s1d) and fmtarenas exit with
the same error.

I thought that there was probably an incompatibility with my hard
drive, then i tried it with another brand new HD with the same
result.

I'm running plan9port-20051222 on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE .

Another question (the last):
Is there a built-in mechanism to feed the vnfs's config file or should
i handle this with script?

Thanks

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