From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 27 9:26:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF22037B401 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 09:26:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from hclb.demon.co.uk (hclb.demon.co.uk [158.152.8.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D217B43E88 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 09:26:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@hclb.demon.co.uk) Received: (from root@localhost) by hclb.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.9.3) id g9RHO6j00478 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 17:24:06 GMT (envelope-from root) From: devans@hclb.demon.co.uk (Dave Evans) Subject: Re: df problems ? To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1035764472snx@hclb.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.43 $ Date: Sun, 27 Oct 02 17:21:12 GMT Organization: Lines: 13 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is there any way of obtaining a list of superblocks on a fs, apart from > > making a note of the list newfs produces? > > dumpfs(8) > There is, as I've just discovered, a -N option to newfs, which displays what it is going to do but doesn't write to the disk. One slip of the typing fingers and you're sunk. It seems that superblocks are always in the same place, but there are more on larger disks. This seems to apply for all the disks I've looked at. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message