Subject: Re: Can't newfs a new disk
To: Paul M. Newhouse <newhouse@pimin.diac.com>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/01/1997 05:01:05
Congratulations, you're a victim of inflexible Unix error handling. :)

>   #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>     a:   250992     1008    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    1 - 249)

You cannot newfs a partition whose rfstype is "unused."  Change the
partitions you want to use to fstype "4.2BSD", fsize "1024", bsize
"8192", and cpg "16".

(If anything in there is meant for swap, change it to fstype "swap".)