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From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Re: Disklabel/newfs -
Message-ID: <1993Mar4.201054.16396@coe.montana.edu>
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 20:10:54 GMT
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In article <1993Mar4.181535.4302@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>Make sure you don't try to create a file-system using the 'c' partition,
>or the 'd' partition, if you are trying to use multiple partition on
>your drive.   It makes life very frustrating.
>:-) :-)
>
>(Hmm, I don't know *anyone* that did that before, do I :-( )

11 g*****n days of "Hey Nate, this stupid thing doesn't work. Watch:

newfs /dev/rsd1d
mount /dev/rsd1d
install crap
shutdown -r now

....
Panic:  Duplicate Inode...  and so on.

Amazing how much better it works when you don't use 'partition d'.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu