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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:17:12 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.c 
Message-ID:  <3444.1016713032@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:05:19 EST." <20020321070519.A80338@espresso.q9media.com> 

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In message <20020321070519.A80338@espresso.q9media.com>, Mike Barcroft writes:
>Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
>> Yes; mdconfig cannot know what its disks are used for; they may be subdivided
>> into slices and partitions of any size, and newfs is not the only filesystem.
>
>I guess there's no correct way to report this type of error early in
>the memory disk creation process.

No, but the newfs message can be improved a lot.

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