Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 08:04:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Cc: blaise.ibp.fr!roberto@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newfs weirdness... Message-ID: <199505251504.IAA26479@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199505250020.UAA09525@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> from "Gene Stark" at May 24, 95 08:20:32 pm
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> 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 <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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