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To: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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Subject: Re: newfs hangs my system? 
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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:04:17 -0600
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
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>lambic:~ [12]->newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/ccd0c /a
>

I haven't tried to verify it yet, but my guess is that newfs'ing the
block device causes some kind of buffer deadlock if the partition is
large enough.  Can you newfs the raw partition?

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Justin T. Gibbs
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