Subject: Re: misc/34568: bug in netbsd guide
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/21/2006 23:31:31
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:25:02AM +0000, gmawby@yahoo.com.au wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR misc/34568; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: gmawby@yahoo.com.au
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: misc/34568: bug in netbsd guide
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:25:36 +1000
> 
>  On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:40:02PM +0000, Jukka Salmi wrote:
>  > The following reply was made to PR misc/34568; it has been noted by GNATS.
>  > 
>  > From: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch>
>  > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
>  > Cc: 
>  > Subject: Re: misc/34568: bug in netbsd guide
>  > Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:37:55 +0200
>  > 
>  >  gmawby@yahoo.com.au wrote:
>  >  > >Description:
>  >  > 	Section 19.7 of the guide should read newfs /dev/rsd0a not /dev/sda
>  >  > 	same for newfs /dev/rsd0e not /dev/sd0e
>  >  
>  >  ...or probably just
>  >  
>  >  	newfs sd0a
>  >  	newfs sd0e
>  >  
>  >  -- 
>  >  If fifty million people say a foolish thing,
>  >  it is still a foolish thing.
>  >  
>  >  	Anatole France
>  >  
>  > 
>  > 
>   I thought it had to be the raw device!?

Yes, but newfs (and fsck, and a few other tools) will convert 'sd0a' to
'/dev/rsd0a'

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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