Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:10:54 -0500 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> To: Brian Tao <taob@risc.org> Cc: ben@rosengart.com, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-981004-BETA observations Message-ID: <361F78FE.DE0ED451@webwizard.org.mx> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981010082411.23916a-100000@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca>
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Brian Tao wrote: > 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. > -- I have a script that does a newfs to the partition before making a new release. It's been doing this for some time. I have just been living with it:-) I almost always have to run it twice. ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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