Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:34:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-981004-BETA observations Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9810060032350.8451-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810051730390.5265-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Doug White wrote: > 1. The disk in it originally had 2.2.1 in dedicated mode installed on it. > I went through sysinstall's 'Express' feature, removing the old > partition and putting a new one on and making a Greg Lehey > Monolithic(tm) layout. At the commit step, for some reason newfs wigged > out on it, reporting: > > newfs: ioctl(WDINFO): cross-device link > newfs: /dev/rwd0s1a: can't rewrite disk label > > Exiting back to the main menu and going through 'express' again worked > fine. Go figure. I've been running into something similar: when newfsing /dev/rsd1f by hand, I get: newfs: ioctl(WDINFO): inappropriate ioctl for device newfs: /dev/rsd1f: can't rewrite disk label And when I run newfs again immediately, same arguments, I don't get the messages. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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