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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:44:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "David J. Duchscher" <daved@tamu.edu>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, ulf@Alameda.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newfs problems, more information: 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810190942260.14490-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199810182253.RAA12864@orion.tamu.edu>

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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, David J. Duchscher wrote:

> > > newfs: /dev/ccd0c: not a character-special device
> > 
> > Don't put a filesystem on the 'c' partition.

Mike likes to preach that (not using partiton c) but I haven't been able
to bear it out on -STABLE.  3.0 may have changed the convention; I don't
have a disk to test it on.

> Granted this document references 2.2-RELEASE but it doesn't follow
> this convention/rule.  It should probably be updated.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/diskformat.html#s1-4-3

I'll put it in my queue.

Doug White                               
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