From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 10 05:26:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01888 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 05:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca (tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01881; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 05:26:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from taob@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca) Received: (from taob@localhost) by tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23857; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:25:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:25:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao X-Sender: taob@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca To: ben@rosengart.com cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-981004-BETA observations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message