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David O'Brien writes:
 > I've tried this with both 4.2-RELEASE, and 5-CURRENT and get the same
 > result.  When I newfs a ccd partition, it runs *very* quickly -- at the
 > speed of ``newfs -n''.  It doesn't seem to write anything to disk, as
 > fsck fails.  Any body have any ideas?
 > 
 > 
 > # disklabel da0 |grep e:
 >   e: 13421524  4352000    4.2BSD     1024  8192    22   # (Cyl.  270*- 1106*)
 > # disklabel da1 |grep e:
 >   e: 13421524  4352000    4.2BSD     1024  8192    22   # (Cyl.  270*- 1106*)
 > # ccdconfig -C
 > # disklabel ccd0
 >   c: 26842880        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 13106*)
 >   e: 26842880        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 13106*)
 > # newfs /dev/ccd0e
 > /dev/ccd0e:     26842880 sectors in 6554 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors
 >         13106.9MB in 410 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7936 i/g)
 > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 >  32, 65568, 131104, 196640, 262176, 327712, 393248, 458784, 524320, 589856,
 > ..snip..
 > # fsck /dev/ccd0e
 > ** /dev/ccd0e
 > BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
 > ..snip..

Pilot error of some type?  It works fine for me using 'c' paritions.

What's the magic incantation to our diskabel to get a reasonably
complete set of default paritions onto a disk?  Dillon was pushing
something a few months ago that turned into a flame fest.  Did it ever
happen?  Or was that for slices in fdisk?

Drew

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