From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 10 08:17:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15772 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.webwizard.net.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15767; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:17:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Received: from webwizard.org.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by dns.webwizard.net.mx (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA07248; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:10:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Message-ID: <361F78FE.DE0ED451@webwizard.org.mx> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:10:54 -0500 From: Edwin Culp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Tao CC: ben@rosengart.com, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-981004-BETA observations References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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