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".)