It was always wrong. Use the raw device.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, John Brahy <j...@brahy.com> wrote:
> Have I completely lost my mind or should I be able to give newfs a block
device?
>
> # df -ht ffs
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a 1006M 203M 753M 21% /
> /dev/wd0j 7.9G 6.0G 1.5G 81% /home
> /dev/wd0i 1006M 6.0K 956M 0% /tmp
> /dev/wd0d 3.9G 1.2G 2.6G 32% /usr
> /dev/wd0k 9.8G 730M 8.6G 8% /usr/local
> /dev/wd0f 2.0G 66.6M 1.8G 3% /usr/obj
> /dev/wd0e 2.0G 1.1G 774M 60% /usr/src
> /dev/wd0h 1006M 123M 833M 13% /var
> /dev/wd0l 114G 78.4G 30.1G 72% /virtualhosts
> /dev/wd1a 367G 84.9G 264G 24% /backups
> /dev/wd0g 2.0G 221M 1.7G 12% /usr/ports
> # umount obj
> # newfs /dev/wd0f
> newfs: /dev/wd0f: block device
> #
>
> I thought that I have done that before. Have we lost functionality in
> 4.5 or just my mind?
