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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:03:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Steve Howe <groggy@iname.com>
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Subject: Re: MAKEDEV on fd0
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Steve Howe wrote:

> 2.2.7
> fd0 mounted in /dev/mnt
> cd = /mnt/dev
> 
> when creating a boot floppy, the following 2 commands
> generate the following errors:
> 
> /dev/MAKEDEV std

Don't do this.  It doesn't create the slice entries for the hard disks
correctly.  

> Nov 4 10:10:10 user /kernel: /mnt: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME

Your filesystem is consistenly 99% full so the fs optimization changed to
save space but slow FS activities.

> MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV
> MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV
> MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV
> MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV
> MAKEDEV: Can't open MAKEDEV
> 
> the floppy works OK, but i don't understand
> why the optimization changes on me (the floppy
> is created with the newfs -o space option)
> or why MAKEDEV generates 5 errors when creating
> wd0.

Looks like something happened to the disk.
Doug White                               
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