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