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Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/newfs



On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:00:05PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:27:08PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>   | I think an improvement on the -F flag might be the way to go.  It
>   | appears to want to do the same thing, and the only issue is that it
>   | wants a size specification, which I think would normally not be
>   | necessary.
> 
> newfs -F needs the size because it's designed to work on regular files.

Then maybe the thing to do is have -F look at what it's passed. If it's a 
file, it needs the size. If it's a device, it should be able to get 
partition info from the device.

Take care,

Bill

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