From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 26 6:57:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808C437B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 06:57:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hclb.demon.co.uk (hclb.demon.co.uk [158.152.8.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9A543E8A for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 06:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@hclb.demon.co.uk) Received: (from root@localhost) by hclb.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.9.3) id g9QDtXh00494 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:55:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from root) From: devans@hclb.demon.co.uk (Dave Evans) Subject: Re: df problems ? To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1035664873snx@hclb.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.43 $ Date: Sat, 26 Oct 02 13:41:13 GMT Organization: Lines: 22 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is all very true for 4.7, but what about earlier versions. > > I compiled fsck using 4.7 srcs, includes and hierarchy with 4.0 > libraries and tools, so that I could have an fsck I could use with my > 4.0 CDROM (the latest one I have, unfortunately) to repair any changes > made by my CURRENT system. It does compile with the same errors you get > on a true 4.7 system about unsigned/signed comparisons. It even works as > a program, but it does not repair the filesystem properly to be > compatible with 4.0. You get an instant panic when going multi-user. > This is a real nuisance as it blows my recovery strategy should I ever > need it. If someone could figure out how to fix this I would be grateful > until the time I get my hands on a 5.0 CDROM > I tried it again today and it worked (fsck'ing CURRENT drives with my fsck version 4.7 compiled for 4.0 ). I don't know why it failed yesterday. Is there any way of obtaining a list of superblocks on a fs, apart from making a note of the list newfs produces? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message