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Date:      Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:57:51 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c 
Message-ID:  <199809111857.LAA00948@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 23:26:09 PDT." <199809110626.XAA09717@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> grog        1998/09/10 23:26:09 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/newfs           newfs.8 newfs.c 
>   Log:
>   Reviewed by:	bde,jkh
>   
>   Add -v flag to newfs:
>   
>   -v    Specify that the partition does not contain any slices, and that
>         newfs should treat the whole partition as the file system.  This
>         option is useful for synthetic disks such as ccd and vinum.

A partition can't contain slices.  A slice may contain partitions.  

What does this actually do?

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