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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 16:14:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: DPT install problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522155651.21115B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980522201815.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>

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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:

> 
> I agree, but I do virtually most of my new installs on 3.0 and with
> filesystems of 4GB or smaller.  Some 16GB filesystems seem to work fine.
> 
> It may very well be that the problem is in the fact that the swap device
> may or may not be activated at the time of newfs.  Does anyone know the
> answer to this question?

  I'm pretty sure swap is enabled at that point.

  It is doesn't seem like an out of memory issue, becuase I would expect
newfs to die with an error.  Also, newfs seems to run to completion
(prints a new line after the last line of sector numbers).

> Simon

Tom


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