From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 11:47:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05831 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:47:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05826 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00514; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:49:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810191849.LAA00514@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug White cc: "David J. Duchscher" , Mike Smith , ulf@Alameda.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs problems, more information: In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:44:32 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:49:32 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. Actually, I do it all the time. Bruce chastises people for doing it, so I'm just repeating the Best Availalble Practice. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message