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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: SYSQUEST disks...
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>Are there any real reasons for these restrictions?  If a file is newfs'd,
>geometry options should be forced, but otherwise newfs should not be
>wise-ass and tell what I want to do.  fsck and df have even less reason for
>complaints?

`df .' is useful.  Perhaps df should only convert to the device for
directories.  `fsck .' would be useful, but doesn't work.

Bruce