From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 09:45:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22521 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:45:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22515 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25122; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:44:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "David J. Duchscher" cc: Mike Smith , ulf@Alameda.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs problems, more information: In-Reply-To: <199810182253.RAA12864@orion.tamu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, David J. Duchscher wrote: > > > newfs: /dev/ccd0c: not a character-special device > > > > Don't put a filesystem on the 'c' partition. Mike likes to preach that (not using partiton c) but I haven't been able to bear it out on -STABLE. 3.0 may have changed the convention; I don't have a disk to test it on. > Granted this document references 2.2-RELEASE but it doesn't follow > this convention/rule. It should probably be updated. > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/diskformat.html#s1-4-3 I'll put it in my queue. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message