From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 22 16:45:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18162 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 16:45:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA18144 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 16:45:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yd10q-0005Vm-00; Fri, 22 May 1998 16:14:08 -0700 Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 16:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT install problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 May 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > I agree, but I do virtually most of my new installs on 3.0 and with > filesystems of 4GB or smaller. Some 16GB filesystems seem to work fine. > > It may very well be that the problem is in the fact that the swap device > may or may not be activated at the time of newfs. Does anyone know the > answer to this question? I'm pretty sure swap is enabled at that point. It is doesn't seem like an out of memory issue, becuase I would expect newfs to die with an error. Also, newfs seems to run to completion (prints a new line after the last line of sector numbers). > Simon Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message