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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:12:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: David Langford <langfod@maui.net>
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Subject: Re: Newfs errors...
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, David Langford wrote:

> While trying to newfs a ccd partition newfs gives me:
> 
> newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): No such process
> newfs: /dev/rccd0c: can't rewrite disk label  

What version of FreeBSD?

> 
> What may be going wrong? 
> Thanks,
> -David Langford
>  langfod@dihelix.com
> 
> 
> #newfs /dev/rccd0c
> Warning: 4048 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
> /dev/rccd0c:    34377776 sectors in 8394 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors
>         16786.0MB in 525 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7936 i/g)
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>  32, 65568, ...
> ...
>  34013216, 34078752, 34144288, 34209824, 34275360, 34340896,
> newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): No such process
> newfs: /dev/rccd0c: can't rewrite disk label  
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD XXX 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Nov  9 18:09:13 HST 1998     root@XXX:/usr/src/sys/compile/XXX  i386

Hm, we had problems with newfs dying with 'no such device' (EXDEV), but
not ESRCH.

Doug White                               
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