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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c 
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <200204241227.g3OCR3Z87619@freefall.freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp
> writes:
> >phk         2002/04/24 05:27:03 PDT
> >
> >  Modified files:
> >    sbin/newfs           newfs.8 newfs.c
> >  Log:
> >  Remove the -v option, it is now default behaviour.
> >
> >  Sponsored by:   DARPA & NAI Labs
>
> It is now no longer mandatory to have a disklabel on a disk to
> newfs it:
>
> 	mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 4m -u 56
> 	newfs /dev/md56

It wasn't mandatory before either; it was just inconvenient to edit
/etc/disktab.

%%%
Script started on Wed Apr 24 22:50:25 2002
ttyp1:bde@besplex:/tmp> dd if=/dev/zero of=zz0 bs=1440k count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 0.087156 secs (16918641 bytes/sec)
ttyp1:bde@besplex:/tmp> newfs -T floppy ./zz0
newfs: ./zz0: not a character-special device
Warning: 1216 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
./zz0:	2880 sectors in 1 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors
	1.4MB in 1 cyl groups (1 c/g, 2.00MB/g, 704 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32
ttyp1:bde@besplex:/tmp> exit

Script done on Wed Apr 24 22:50:56 2002
%%%

Bruce


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