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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:40:53 -0500
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port venti FreeBSD
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> I can't run fmtisect or fmtarenas directly on partition without this
> error:
>
> ; sudo /usr/local/plan9/bin/venti/fmtarenas -b 8192
> arenas0. /dev/ad2:0-10G
> err 0: can't determine size of
> partition /dev/ad2 /usr/local/plan9/bin/venti/fmtarenas: can't open
> partition /dev/ad2:0-10G: can't determine size of partition /dev/ad2
> [status 1] ;

ls -l /dev/ad2 and look at the major device number.
There is a list in src/lib9/_p9dir.c and maybe it is missing.

> Another question (the last):
> Is there a built-in mechanism to feed the vnfs's config file or should
> i handle this with script?

Not sure what you're asking here.  Vnfs will reload the config file
if you cat /dump/+refreshconfig.

Russ