Yes, I've reported it before, and someone else has too, but no
one ever responded.  I've forgotten the details, but there is
a definite file system size where below the size, newfs succeeds
and above the size newfs core dumps.  It was pretty small, like
80MB IIRC.

MBS

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Peter Seebach wrote:

> So, I tried installing (on a PC164) with the 1.5ZA snapshot.  "newfs
> /dev/rsd0a" dumps core, and then doesn't even do that because (of course)
> the miniature root isn't big enough for a core dump.  Anyone else seen
> anything like this?
>
> -s
>