On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:08 AM, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:

> What about an option -P to print a progess bar instead? As you  
> wrote --
> no average user cares to write them down, so even the first 9 are not
> that useful. A progress bar on the other hand would give a good
> indication of how far the newfs is.

Better yet, how about a -v option (verbose mode) to display them all.

BTW, you can get them again with dumpfs(8), too, I think.

-- thorpej