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re: CVS commit: src/sbin/newfs
> On Friday, 10 October 2003 at 16:23:31 +1000, matthew green wrote:
>>
>> what's this all about? this sounds like a strange option to me
>> and i don't recall it being discussed anywhere...
>>
>> how is it different to using `sysctl kern.rawpartition`?
>
> Good question. Where do I find the docco for kern.rawpartition?
>
> try sysctl(8)?
Yes, before writing that. It says:
kern.rawpartition integer no
That doesn't exactly say what it's good for. Setting it as root
doesn't help much either:
do you not understand the concept of a disk raw partition? it seem
that sysctl(3) has more info, but it doesn't really say more than
"the raw partition of the disk" ...
# sysctl -w kern.rawpartition=1
kern.rawpartition: sysctl() failed with Operation not permitted
you can not change it it is constant per platform.
The -V flag tells newfs not to make assumptions about the device name.
i think the best thing would be to teach newfs to just try the name
as-is first (perhaps the -F flag already does what you need, but i
think it would be better for this to "just work.")
.mrg.
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