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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


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