In message <20010907205626.A20131@beverly.kleinbus.org>
	on Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:56:26 +0200,
	Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > You are indeed correct, thanks - perhaps newfs should automatically
> > use the raw device if the block device is specified, as well as
> > printing a warning (line 521, v1.45)
> 
> Now, this is a bad idea --- you might even want to newfs a plain file.
How about newfs(8) check that a target isn't block device?

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>