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> In reply to Julian Elischer who wrote:
> > julian      1998/06/14 12:00:14 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/dev/slice        slice_base.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Horrible hack to allow newfs to work again in SLICE kernels.
> >   Real fix in the making but requires editing 60+ files. (every damn driver)
> 
> Why ?? newfs has worked fine for me ??
> Oh and it now works on >8G drives, I run DEVFS/SLICE on my main box
> here with 11.5G EIDE disk, no probs...

Hmm,

dev:~ # df /usr/obj
Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd3s1a     232159   160586    53001    75%    /usr/obj
dev:~ # mount | fgrep /usr/obj
/dev/sd3s1a on /usr/obj (local, noatime, nosuid, soft-updates, writes: sync 4 async 0)
dev:~ # umount /usr/obj
dev:~ # newfs /dev/rsd3s1a
write error: 479199
wtfs: Read-only file system
dev:~ # 

> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
>                 Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
> ..

Hopefully the patch'll fix disklabel too ?

-- 
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