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Date:      Mon, 12 May 1997 16:53:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   newfs hangs my system?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.96.970512164812.12315A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>

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Hello,

I just got a couple of new drives for my machine, and I've been trying to
format the drives...to no avail.  (2.2-STABLE)

Well, that's not completely true.  I was finally able to talk sysinstall
into doing the brunt of the work for me.  I've got two 4GB drives, and I
thought it would be real cool to put 80MB of swap on the front of each
drive and then CCD the balance of the two drives together.

However, I have something wrong.  Newfs is hanging my machine.  I've been
able to disklabel my CCD, here it is:

lambic:~ [11]->disklabel ccd0
[...]
3 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  c: 16701056        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 -8154*)


...but when I try to newfs it, the system hangs.  I'll do something like:

lambic:~ [12]->newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/ccd0c /a


--> and it'll run for a few seconds, creating things like crazy, get to
about the second line and hang the whole system.  Locks everything up
tight.  This is not unique to my ccd filesystem either;  if I just try to
newfs the drives alone (/dev/sd1s1e for example) I get the same behavior.

sysinstall doesn't seem to have this problem, which suggests sysinstall
knows something I don't.

What am I doing wrong?  What do I need to do to mount my CCD?  Halp!


Thanks,


Brian




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