On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:43:52AM -0600, Orestes Leal R. wrote:
> everything from update the MBR, dislabel, etc, seems to work, but
> when I do newfs /dev/NameOfPartition
> It says
>
> /dev/NameOfPartition: Block Device
I can guess what you did, but please show the exact commands next
time.
To answer your question: run newfs on the raw device. We added a check
since it is wrong to run it on a block device. That only works if you
are lucky. This is mentioned in the man page.
-Otto
>
> and anything else, and later can't mount the partition off course.
>
> >On 12/20/10 10:45, Orestes Leal R. wrote:
> >Hi guys, yesterday I was adding a new virtual disk (in vmware
> >workstation) to my 4.8
> >virtual but I can't do it because the procedure to format and make a new
> >partition
> >seems diferent for 4.6 or 4.3 compared to 4.8, any help?
> > no, not really different (though some things are more precise now)
> > So...the basics:
> >What did you do?
> >What did you expect to happen?
> >What did you see happen?
> > Nick.
> >
>
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