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

Nick Smith nsmith1 at stevens.edu
Sun Feb 9 23:33:04 EST 2014


I haven't tested this, but it looks like you need to add your user to 
the "wheel" group to use su. Once you are added to the group make sure 
to login again for it to take effect.
-Nick

On Sun 09 Feb 2014 11:23:30 PM EST, John Scire wrote:
> 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.
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