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Date:      Mon, 12 May 1997 21:35:20 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newfs hangs my system?
Message-ID:  <199705130335.VAA19271@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970512173551.12407A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.96.970512164812.12315A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> <Pine.OSF.3.96.970512173551.12407A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>

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> And I've figured out my problem.  I was doing
> 
> 	newfs [options] /dev/ccd0c
> 
> And I shoulda been doing
> 
> 	newfs [options] /dev/rccd0c
> 
> Why was I doing this?  This problem wasn't unique to my CCD, I was able to
> crash my machine without this.  No, the problem is in the man page for
> newfs.  I quoth from the examples:
> 
> EXAMPLES
>            mount_mfs -s=20480 -o nosuid,nodev /dev/sd0b /tmp
> 
> 
> --> shouldn't this be /dev/rsd0b?

Not for the mount command.  You 'mount' block devices, but you create
(newfs) using the character device.

Basically, it's just unix magic. :) :) :)


Nate



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