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Date:      Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:51:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        zettel@acm.org (Leonard Zettel)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: restore
Message-ID:  <200503031451.j23Epbj16985@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200503021317.13502.zettel@acm.org> from "Leonard Zettel" at Mar 02, 2005 01:17:13 PM

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> > > > Next, why did you try and mount /dev/ad0s1a and then newfs /dev/ad0s1a
> > > > That should not work at all.   You don't newfs a mounted partition.
> > >
> > > Gee, I didn't know that.  It wasn't clear when I read the handbook
> > > or man pages.  May give me something new to try--
> >
> > That is probably your main problem.
> >
> Doing the newfs on the unmounted partition worked the way I
> expected it to.
> Once more, thanks to all.

Good that it now works.   It is often some minor seeming thing
that looms large when it is not right.

////jerry

>   -LenZ-
> 



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