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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mfs filesystem problems with 2.0.5
Date: 28 Sep 1995 08:50:23 +0100
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Bernard Steiner <bs@Germany.EU.net> wrote:
>
>|> 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)

Most likely not.  The above is a benign warning (it has been
eliminated for the default case meanwhile) and in no way a reason for
newfs/mount_mfs to fail.

Since mount_mfs detaces from the controlling tty and runs as a daemon,
it cannot emit any error messages to the terminal.  You have to check
your syslog messages for the reason of the error.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)