On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> perseant@netbsd.org said:
> >  newfs_lfs refuses to create a filesystem on a partition not labeled
> > "4.4LFS". 
> 
> Shouldn't we try to make the various newfs_* programs
> behave similarily?
> I personally like the idea that one has to plan the filesystems
> on the disklabel explicitely. Prevents one from accidentally
> doing "newfs /dev/rsd0${RAW_PART}".
> Or are there ccd/raid/ramdisk/whatever issues?

One issue is that MacOS partitions do not at present retain FS flags, so
there's no way to keep it marked "4.4LFS" for instance. :-)

Take care,

Bill