docs/122053: updaze on vinum(4) reference to newfs(8)
Fico
federicogalvezdurand at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 24 16:10:03 UTC 2008
>Number: 122053
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: updaze on vinum(4) reference to newfs(8)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 24 16:10:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Fico
>Release: release 7.0
>Organization:
UFRJ
>Environment:
FreeBSD jwww.local 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 29 17:08:36 CET 2008 root at trinity.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TRINITY i386
>Description:
MAKING FILE SYSTEM sub-section on vinum(4) need update on how to use newfs(8).
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- man.orig/man4/vinum.4 2006-06-11 21:41:07.000000000 +0200
+++ man/man4/vinum.4 2008-03-24 17:01:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -428,18 +428,20 @@
For a physical disk partition, the
last letter of the device name specifies the partition identifier (a to h).
.Nm
-volumes need not conform to this convention, but if they do not,
-.Xr newfs 8
-will complain that it cannot determine the partition.
-To solve this problem,
-use the
-.Fl v
-flag to
-.Xr newfs 8 .
+volumes does not need to conform with this convention.
For example, if you have a volume
.Pa concat ,
use the following command to create a UFS file system on it:
.Pp
+.Dl "newfs /dev/gvinum/concat"
+.Pp
+.Ss Note:
+On FreeBSD versions prior to 5.0
+.Xr newfs 8
+requires an additional
+.Fl v
+flag and the old device naming scheme:
+.Pp
.Dl "newfs -v /dev/vinum/concat"
.Sh OBJECT NAMING
.Nm
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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