Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "David J. Duchscher" <daved@tamu.edu>, ulf@Alameda.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs problems, more information: Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981019125826.13279G-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199810191849.LAA00514@dingo.cdrom.com>
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I also chastise people for it all the time :-) NEVER put a filesystem on 'c' (until 'c' loses all magic) On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, David J. Duchscher wrote: > > > > > > > newfs: /dev/ccd0c: not a character-special device > > > > > > > > Don't put a filesystem on the 'c' partition. > > > > Mike likes to preach that (not using partiton c) but I haven't been able > > to bear it out on -STABLE. 3.0 may have changed the convention; I don't > > have a disk to test it on. > > Actually, I do it all the time. Bruce chastises people for doing it, > so I'm just repeating the Best Availalble Practice. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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