Re: newfs failure - only for read

[Allen Briggs <briggs%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:21:05PM +0900, Boo Geum Jung wrote:
> # newfs /dev/sd0
> newfs: /dev/sd0c: open for read: Operation not supported by device

Ah.  If you just specify /dev/sd0, it will assume /dev/sd0c.  Since this
is the "whole disk" partition, you are prevented from opening it.  You
may have already found that

        newfs /dev/rsd0a

will probably work better for you.

-allen

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