[cs615asa] Trouble with Partitioning on the AMIs given in class

[John Scire]

Hello,

I was playing around with the AMI's given at the end of lecture 2 and I 
ran into a bit of trouble with the FreeBSD AMI.

After attaching the volume to my instance, I had some trouble at first 
trying to find where it was attached under /dev. After finding the 
location at which it was attached using 'dmesg', I tried to use some of 
the commands we discussed in class to partition the volume, such as 
fdisk. However, it seems that with the FreeBSD AMI given, you cannot 
'su' into root; it just gives an error "su: sorry". You also cannot ssh 
in as root, as it asks for a non-existent password. Even if you tried to 
use fdisk on the device without root, it gives a permission denied 
error. I tried various other partitioning commands and still came up 
with several "permission denied" or "cannot open disk" errors. So, I was 
just wondering if anyone else encountered any problems with the FreeBSD 
AMI (FreeBSD v.10.0). I will go ahead and try a different version of 
FreeBSD to see if I can partition the attached disk.

Thanks again,
John S.