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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mfs filesystem problems with 2.0.5
Date: 27 Sep 1995 17:35:41 +0100
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In article <JOED.95Sep27145710@hollie>, joed@hollie (Joe Drumgoole (ERL Hacker)) writes:
|> However when I try this on 2.0.5 I get the following error,
|> 
|> thebride# mount_mfs -s 8192 /dev/wd1b /tmp
|> Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (204)
|> 
|> and the mount fails. Anybody know whats changed ?

Not directly. Alas, deducing from what I saw what newfs told me (note that
newfs and mount_mfs are identical) you'll probably want to tell it the
number of heads and the number of sectors per track manually (-t and -u, I
think - "newfs" without options will tell you this)

Hope that helps
	Bernard