From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 13:04:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13632 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:04:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13624 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26739; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdX26734; Mon Oct 19 19:59:29 1998 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Mike Smith cc: Doug White , "David J. Duchscher" , ulf@Alameda.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs problems, more information: In-Reply-To: <199810191849.LAA00514@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I also chastise people for it all the time :-) NEVER put a filesystem on 'c' (until 'c' loses all magic) On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message