From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 10 03:51:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA12589 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 03:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA12582 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 03:51:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA04275; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 01:43:33 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 01:43:32 -0900 (AKST) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: MAKEDEV on fd0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > when creating a boot floppy, the following 2 commands > > generate the following errors: > > > > /dev/MAKEDEV std > > Don't do this. It doesn't create the slice entries for the hard disks > correctly. hopefully it is ok if i create the slice entries afterwards? > > Nov 4 10:10:10 user /kernel: /mnt: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME > > Your filesystem is consistenly 99% full so the fs optimization changed to > save space but slow FS activities. isn't it the other way around? it's changing from saving "SPACE" to saving "TIME", which is just the opposite of what it should do. > > MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV > > MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV > > MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV > > MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV > > MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV > > > > the floppy works OK, but i don't understand > > why the optimization changes on me (the floppy > > is created with the newfs -o space option) > > or why MAKEDEV generates 5 errors when creating > > wd0. > > Looks like something happened to the disk. it does this to every disk. the disks all check out fine and format properly in DOS & BSD. if i execute the same command on my hard drive, there are no errors. > Doug White To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message