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Date:      Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:25:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@risc.org>
To:        ben@rosengart.com
Cc:        jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0-981004-BETA observations
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.981010082411.23916a-100000@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9810060032350.8451-100000@echonyc.com>

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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote:
>
> I've been running into something similar: when newfsing /dev/rsd1f
> by hand, I get:
> 
> newfs: ioctl(WDINFO): inappropriate ioctl for device
> newfs: /dev/rsd1f: can't rewrite disk label
> 
> And when I run newfs again immediately, same arguments, I don't get
> the messages.

    Yup... seen the same thing here too, three times from inside
sysinstall, and once manually with a newfs on the command line.  In
all cases, a second attempt at the same operation succeeded.
-- 
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"


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