On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, bofh wrote: > > > I tried a newfs -m 1 /dev/wd3a. After newfs is over, wd3a is not mountable. > > fsck can't find any usable superblock. However, when I did a "newfs > > /dev/wd3a", the resulting partition checks out fine (fsck is ok with it) and > > mounts without problems. Any idea why? > > you changed a default and found a bug. less than 1% of users ever use -m. > there's really no good reason to use -m 1, and several reasons not to (not > least of which is it apparently doesn't work). leave it alone and use the > default; you will be happier.
Sound advice. But in addition to that, I noticed you have disk offsets starting at zero. On various patforms this is a problem, because you did not run fdisk. Check http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#blankfdisk. Please include platform info (dmesg) next time. -Otto
