Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:15:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: DougB@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trashed a UFS2 file system from 4.8-Release Message-ID: <20030507101121.C699@leelou.in.tern>
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> 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/
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