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

John Scire jscire at stevens.edu
Sun Feb 9 23:51:56 EST 2014


Okay I will give that a shot! Thank you!

John

On 2/9/2014 11:33 PM, Nick Smith wrote:
> 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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