Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 00:26:13 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with CCD. Message-ID: <199706020426.AAA03842@repeat.pci.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <199706020333.VAA00695@pluto.plutotech.com> References: <199706010545.BAA16048@repeat.pci.on.ca> <199706020333.VAA00695@pluto.plutotech.com>
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>>>>> "Justin" == Justin T Gibbs <gibbs@plutotech.com> writes: >> But strangely, the install seems to run just fine... without a >> hitch. Why can the install format a partition and I can't later? Justin> Because you are not using the raw device. Perhaps John or Justin> David can look into why we get into deadlock by newfsing a Justin> character device??? Oi... Ok. Doing that by habbit. As a precaution, maybe newfs should either refuse the non-raw device or use the raw device? I realize the warning was there, but I have successfully ignored that warning for many years. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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