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From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mfs filesystem problems with 2.0.5
Date: 28 Sep 1995 13:24:28 -0700
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In article <JOED.95Sep27145710@hollie> joed@hollie (Joe Drumgoole (ERL Hacker)) writes:

$ 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 ?

i don't know -- never really tried mfs until a few days ago.  someone
online told me to use

/dev/wd0s1b			/tmp		mfs	rw,-s=8192 0 0

in my /etc/fstab, and that works.