Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 07:42:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs hangs my system? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970513073659.18335A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <199705130305.VAA12333@pluto.plutotech.com>
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>>lambic:~ [12]->newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/ccd0c /a >> > >I haven't tried to verify it yet, but my guess is that newfs'ing the >block device causes some kind of buffer deadlock if the partition is >large enough. Can you newfs the raw partition? Yep, that did the trick. (ncr scsi fwiw.) I was just bitten by the @%^#$! man page. I found this somewhere in the email archives (or maybe Satoshi's CCD page, I don't remember now)...I feel like I've just learned the secret handshake! The man page for newfs is lame, IMHO. There should be an example of newfs on that page that works. If I knew what was a correct usage of newfs, I'd write one... Sigh. Brian
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