it used to be broken when it allowed newfs to non raw disks.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:18:16PM -0600, Tom Rosso wrote:
> John Brahy 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?
>>
>
> from newfs(8):
>
> The special file should be a raw device, for example /dev/rsd0a; if a
> relative path like sd0a is specified, the corresponding raw device is
> used.
>
>
> use /dev/rwd0f
>
> Tom
