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| author | pooka <pooka@NetBSD.org> | 2009-04-03 13:22:05 +0000 |
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| committer | pooka <pooka@NetBSD.org> | 2009-04-03 13:22:05 +0000 |
| commit | 54f76d2fa4697c2986371f510e7fdacca442de2b (patch) | |
| tree | 58e54205df40d3235e4b2baabcc5d917b7f39aa2 | |
| parent | ac465a42e77ff9149a5cd1add05f3bd19f88a8c2 (diff) | |
Issue a better error message if attempting to create a file system
on a block device. Inspired by PR kern/41127.
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/newfs/newfs.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.c b/sbin/newfs/newfs.c index e729c9c68d0..0d93e55eaa7 100644 --- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.c +++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.c @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* $NetBSD: newfs.c,v 1.102 2008/08/01 15:32:30 simonb Exp $ */ +/* $NetBSD: newfs.c,v 1.103 2009/04/03 13:22:05 pooka Exp $ */ /* * Copyright (c) 1983, 1989, 1993, 1994 @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ __COPYRIGHT("@(#) Copyright (c) 1983, 1989, 1993, 1994\ #if 0 static char sccsid[] = "@(#)newfs.c 8.13 (Berkeley) 5/1/95"; #else -__RCSID("$NetBSD: newfs.c,v 1.102 2008/08/01 15:32:30 simonb Exp $"); +__RCSID("$NetBSD: newfs.c,v 1.103 2009/04/03 13:22:05 pooka Exp $"); #endif #endif /* not lint */ @@ -468,6 +468,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) special = device; if (fsi < 0 || fstat(fsi, &sb) == -1) err(1, "%s: open for read", special); + if (S_ISBLK(sb.st_mode)) { + errx(1, "%s is a block device. use raw device", + special); + } if (!Nflag) { fso = open(special, O_WRONLY, 0); |
