On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:59:12PM +0100, roberth wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:25:35 -0600 > "Orestes Leal R." <l...@cubacatering.avianet.cu> wrote: > > > Otto, this is not 4.8 it's 4.3, so this is a error now and not a > > warning, what I must changte in the comnand line to make it work with > > 4.8? > > *sigh* > you have been told what is wrong before, but lets end this. > > "newfs /dev/sd1a" was wrong but was handled gracefully. > and it is still wrong but now it bombs out. > > newfs works on raw devices. raw devices start with 'r'. > > the right command simply is "newfs /dev/rsd1a".
Or just newfs sd1a which is also in the man page, and in Section 14.4 of the FAQ.
