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Date:      11 Dec 2002 14:02:28 -0600
From:      Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>
To:        "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: HELP: vinum and newfs on 5.0-RC1
Message-ID:  <1039636948.58397.25.camel@owen1492.it.oot>
In-Reply-To: <3DF795C1.8050905@infowest.com>
References:  <3DF509E5.9050706@infowest.com> <063E4372-0BDE-11D7-BAE8-00039380DD2C@uky.edu> <20021210012955.GK1952@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3DF5458B.2010809@infowest.com> <20021210014211.GO1952@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3DF795C1.8050905@infowest.com>

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On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:45, Aaron D. Gifford wrote:

> Let me correct this to state that the full volume name was "raid5volume" 
> and I just shortened it to save typing.  This turns out to be important. 
>   Looking at newfs.c, it looks like the last letter of the special 
> device is used to choose the partition.  Thus "e" was selected during my 
> attempts to do newfs.  (Note to self: Do NOT to abbreviate when 
> reporting trouble.)

I don't know if this is still the case with Current/GEOM, but isn't this
what "newfs -v" is for...?

Craig


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