From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 25 15:37:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA06721 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:37:55 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA06715; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:37:53 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id PAA27610; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:37:52 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199501252337.PAA27610@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: More on stand/newfs failure To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 15:37:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: waddell@posc.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <1013.791072205@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 25, 95 02:16:45 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 461 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > about newfs /dev/rsd1a before failing with the message: > > > > Exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code = 5888. > > < OK > > > I think I know the problem. You have a large disk here, but are using If you have nothing else on the disk, use the 32/64 geometry in the fdisk-screen and you should be safe. -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)