From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 23:21:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11035 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 23:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA11029 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 23:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA27946; Fri, 16 May 1997 08:20:57 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03583; Fri, 16 May 1997 08:05:15 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970516080515.HA35412@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 08:05:15 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Subject: Re: newfs hangs my system? References: <199705130305.VAA12333@pluto.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Brian N. Handy on May 13, 1997 07:42:41 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian N. Handy wrote: > The man page for newfs is lame, IMHO. There should be an example of newfs > on that page that works. If I knew what was a correct usage of newfs, I'd > write one... There are basically two forms of correct usage. The general one is just: newfs /dev/rsd1a A more specific one, here for a floppy is: newfs -t 0 -u 0 -i 65536 -l 1 -m 3 /dev/rfd0 (assumes the floppy has been labelled with fd1440 etc.) There's not much more you would need. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)