From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 01:15:58 2003 Return-Path: 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 0B19B37B404; Wed, 7 May 2003 01:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mailbox.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71FF43F3F; Wed, 7 May 2003 01:15:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from l.ertl@univie.ac.at) Received: from localhost.localdomain (adslle.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.102.11]) by mailbox.univie.ac.at (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h478Fmd4222468; Wed, 7 May 2003 10:15:51 +0200 Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:15:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030507101121.C699@leelou.in.tern> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: unet 4261; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 cc: DougB@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trashed a UFS2 file system from 4.8-Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 08:15:58 -0000 > So, the question is, if RELENG_4 fsck doesn't grok UFS2 file systems, > why did it try to fsck it? Shouldn't it just give up when it realizes > that it's not a UFS1 fs? Probably because there once was a UFS1 fs on that partition. The UFS2 superblock is located further back, and when you newfs a UFS2 fs, the old superblock doesn't get overwritten. See also bin/51619. best regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/