From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 25 08:04:49 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA26573 for current-outgoing; Thu, 25 May 1995 08:04:49 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA26567 for ; Thu, 25 May 1995 08:04:47 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id IAA26479; Thu, 25 May 1995 08:04:09 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199505251504.IAA26479@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: newfs weirdness... To: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 08:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Cc: blaise.ibp.fr!roberto@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505250020.UAA09525@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> from "Gene Stark" at May 24, 95 08:20:32 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 729 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Not everyone is using "modern SCSI drives" (some are even using IDE). > It is a constant annoyance to me that after I set up my IDE drive with > a particular geometry, newfs ignores it, prints a warning message, and > fails to utilize a bunch of odd sectors at the end of each partition. > > I have said this before, but I really would rather have newfs pay attention > to the geometry stated in the disklabel. If you want to format your > filesystems a different way, you can always set up your disktab or whatever. do newfs -u 0 -t 0 then. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'