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Old 24th August 2011
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
1) Review your /var/log/messages* files -- this is your kernel message history -- and search for error messages with timestamps that match the time of this most recent crash or hang.
Yesterday i had a problem and my pc was stuck on the boot kernel messages(PC stucked and shut it down with the power button) so i reinstalled openbsd so there is no history.I think there could be some solution to fix it without reinstalling but had no patience so i did it the "noob way".

Anyway i was thinking a lot my issue yesterday and i thought something practical(if it works).I decided to create two parttions:

1)msdos ,40gigabytes as an intermediary partition from and to OpenBSD between the other OSes.

2)4.2BSD ,with the rest of the capacity of the drive.


So this is what i did:

Code:
disklabel -E sd0
added i and k partitions which now look like this:

Code:
$ sudo disklabel sd0 
# /dev/rsd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: 001-9VT156      
duid: ba0c2bddc8cd4a44
flags:
bytes/sector: 4096
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 30400
total sectors: 488378646
boundstart: 0
boundend: 488378646
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  c:        488378646                0  unused                   
  i:         10490382               63   MSDOS                   
  k:        477885552         10490448  4.2BSD   8192 65536    1
then formatted using these commands:

Code:
newfs_msdos /dev/rsd0i
and

Code:
newfs /dev/rsd0k

When trying to mount :

Code:
mount  -t msdos /dev/sd0i /usr/usbdevices
and

Code:
mount /dev/sd0k /usr/usbdevices
Both mount successfully.


Now what i want to ask is:

1)I need to mount both partitions everytime i attach the disk or the one i need everytime?

2)Also how i set in which partition a file will be saved?I mean if i cd to disk i see no directories or anything.It's completely empty.
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