Hi guys, yesterday I was adding a new virtual disk (in vmware workstation)  
to my 4.8
virtual but I can't do it because the procedure to format and make a new  
partition
seems diferent for 4.6 or 4.3 compared to 4.8, any help?

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no, not really different (though some things are more precise now)

So...the basics:
What did you do?
What did you expect to happen?
What did you see happen?

Nick.

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everything from update the MBR, dislabel, etc, seems to work, but when I  
do newfs /dev/NameOfPartition
It says

/dev/NameOfPartition: Block Device



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I can guess what you did, but please show the exact commands next
time.

To answer your question: run newfs on the raw device. We added a check
since it is wrong to run it on a block device. That only works if you
are lucky. This is mentioned in the man page.


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I do all that commands in my home machine, tomorrow I will show the  
commands,
but anyway, these commands work for 4.3 but NO in 4.8, thanks a lot,



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geez.  Definite security issue there, definitely can't let us find out 
what disk you are trying to newfs (incorrectly).  And yes, what you are 

Like Otto said, "man newfs"

Hint: the opposite of "block" is "raw".
Double hint: as Otto indicated and I hinted at, what you were doing 
before was wrong.  They don't let you do that anymore.


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This was the procedure I follow in 4.3 sucessfully, the same I did in 4.8  
and doesn't work:

-bash-3.2# fdisk -i sd1

         -----------------------------------------------------
         ------ ATTENTION - UPDATING MASTER BOOT RECORD ------
         -----------------------------------------------------

Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n]
MBR is unchanged
-bash-3.2# fdisk -i sd1

         -----------------------------------------------------
         ------ ATTENTION - UPDATING MASTER BOOT RECORD ------
         -----------------------------------------------------

Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n] y
-bash-3.2# disklabel -E sd1
# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 32 size 2097120
Treating sectors 32-2097152 as the OpenBSD portion of the disk.
You can use the 'b' command to change this.

offset: [32]
size: [2097120]
Write new label?: [y] y
-bash-3.2# newfs /dev/sd1a
newfs: : /dev/sd1a: not a character-special device

/dev/sd1a: 1024.0MB in 2097120 sectors of 512 bytes
6 cylinder groups of 202.47MB, 12958 blocks, 25984 inodes each
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:


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This is not 4.8. This warning has been "upgraded" to an error now.
Read my previous reply and follow the advise in it. 


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Otto, this is not 4.8 it's 4.3, so this is a error now and not a warning,
what I must changte in the comnand line to make it work with 4.8?



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Do you need it in Braille?

Couple of people said to you what to do. Use raw device and not block
device. Is it so hard to read man page for newfs to see that in
DESCRIPTION part?


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Orestes Leal R.

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No, I don't, I'm at work and here don't have a 4.8 box, only 4.6,


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http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=newfs
 Search for 'raw' or read the second paragraph in the section "DESCRIPTION".


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newfs /dev/rsd1a


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On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:25:35 -0600

*sigh*
you have been told what is wrong before, but lets end this.

"newfs /dev/sd1a" was wrong but was handled gracefully.
and it is still wrong but now it bombs out.

newfs works on raw devices. raw devices start with 'r'.

the right command simply is "newfs /dev/rsd1a".
                                        ^

now that it was spelled out, it might be easier for you to read up on
this in the manpages.

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Thanks robert, that's a simple explanation, thanks,


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Or just

newfs sd1a

which is also in the man page,
and in Section 14.4 of the FAQ.

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