>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 17:40:39 EDT
>From: hacksaw@venus.gsd.harvard.edu (Hacksaw)
>
>O.K. I disklabeled it as one big partition, and then newlfs'ed it. New
>lfs did not complain.
>
>Fsck dumps core, and mount_lfs says:

Uh, fsck only works on FFS.  Although the failure mode should probably
be a bit more graceful than a coredump.

>mount_lfs: Operation not supported by device

You need to change the partition type in the disklabel to BSD_LFS
instead of BSD_FFS.
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