On Mon, 4 Mar 1996 23:38:13 +0100 (MET) 
 Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote:

 > # newfs /dev/rsd2g
 > Warning: 36 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
 > /dev/rsd2g:     258840 sectors in 799 cylinders of 9 tracks, 36 sectors
 >         126.4MB in 50 cyl groups (16 c/g, 2.53MB/g, 640 i/g)
 > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 >  32, 5264, 10496, 15728, 20960, 26192, 31424, 36656,
 >  41888, 47120, 52352, 57584, 62816, 68048, 73280, 78512,
 >  82976, 88208, 93440, 98672, 103904, 109136, 114368, 119600,
 >  124832, 130064, 135296, 140528, 145760, 150992, 156224, 161456,
 >  165920, 171152, 176384, 181616, 186848, 192080, 197312, 202544,
 >  207776, 213008, 218240, 223472, 228704, 233936, 239168, 244400,
 >  248864, 254096,
 > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument
 > newfs: /dev/rsd2g: can't rewrite disk label

Don't worry about it ... this was due to some magic number frobbing that 
was happening in the kernel's sunos disklabel code.  I think it's been 
fixed now ... but you can safely ignore the warning.

 > Why does newfs want to rewrite the label? I don't have the source online 
 > so I cannot easily check what happens.

It wants to update the fstype...

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