Re: Half the size

["Carl Lowenstein" <carl.lowenstein%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Christer Sandvik
<christer.sandvik%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>  > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Christer Sandvik
>  > <christer.sandvik%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>  >>  > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Christer Sandvik
>  >>  > <christer.sandvik%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>  >>  >
>  >>  >> Hello
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  I ran newfs on two RZ25-E disks but it created filesystems half the 
> disk
>  >>  >>  size which is not what is wanted. My experience of creating 
> filesystems
>  >>  >>  with newfs is small and could someone tell me which parameters would 
> be
>  >>  >>  used to correct this problem.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >
>  >>  > Is it possible that you are seeing a filesystem size in 1kB blocks
>  >>  > while expecting to see one in 512B sectors?
>  >>  >
>  >>  >     carl
>  >>  >
>  >>  I ran df and it showed them as 200 MB which confirmed that so what's up?
>  >>  Is there any chance parameters was left out?
>  >>
>  >>
>  >
>  > Doesn't newfs create file systems to fit disk partitions?  Did you
>  > partition your disks?  Eventually I will get lost at knowing details
>  > of netbsd, but this seems fairly fundamental.
>  >
>  >     carl
>  Yes they do but maybe something have happened earlier, could an dd
>  /dev/null to disk have damaged sectors which newfs writes to?
>

Well, yes.  dd /dev/null to disk will wipe out the partition
information.  I refreshed my memory to see that in the netBSD context,
the partition tables are built by disklabel(8).

    carl
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