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Subject: Re: HELP: vinum and newfs on 5.0-RC1
From: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>
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On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:45, Aaron D. Gifford wrote:

> Let me correct this to state that the full volume name was "raid5volume" 
> and I just shortened it to save typing.  This turns out to be important. 
>   Looking at newfs.c, it looks like the last letter of the special 
> device is used to choose the partition.  Thus "e" was selected during my 
> attempts to do newfs.  (Note to self: Do NOT to abbreviate when 
> reporting trouble.)

I don't know if this is still the case with Current/GEOM, but isn't this
what "newfs -v" is for...?

Craig


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