Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:03:50 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Andre Albsmeier <andre@akademie3000.de>, Marc Tardif <intmktg@CAM.ORG>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccd with other filesystems Message-ID: <20001001190350.B304@rohrbach.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010012311270.5871-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:32:29PM %2B1100 References: <20001001114540.G43885@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010012311270.5871-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans(bde@zeta.org.au)@Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:32:29PM +1100: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Sunday, 1 October 2000 at 4:09:37 +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > > i dont quite know why it is still possible doing a newfs on a 'c' > > > partition, since the partition type is 'unused' and not > > > '4.2BSD'. newfs should check this and throw an error while providing > > > an expert-only-feature command line option to explicitly override > > > it. > > > > I think this is a bug in newfs. > > This is a feature of newfs. It is almost device-independent. E.g., to > create a filesystem in a regular file with no label in sight: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=foo oseek=2779 count=1 > # -v and ./foo work around device dependence. > # -T floppy is so that I don't have to type a lot of args for this example. > newfs -v -T floppy ./foo and thats exactly the point... if you use -v it should work, if you dont the partition type must be 4.2BSD and it must not be mounted. no more no less? not reasonable? > > > It should only create file systems on > > partitions of type 4.2BSD. Does anybody disagree? Otherwise I'll fix > > it. > > Disagree. The filesystem type field is normally an output of newfs, not > an input. thats new for me... /k -- > Sure eating yogurt will improve your sex life. People know that if > you'll eat that stuff, you'll eat anything. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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