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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:16:32 +0200
From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
To: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
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Subject: Re: strange newfs results
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Hi Alexander,

* Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote:
> 1. pax -w -f /dev/ad0p2 .
> 2. file -s /dev/ad0p2 -> POSIX tar archive
> 3. newfs -U -L usr /dev/ad0p2
> 4. file -s /dev/ad0p2 -> POSIX tar archive

I'm not a file system expert, but doesn't newfs leave the first few KB's
of the file system untouched, to store a boot loader? This means that
the first few bytes of the disk still contain the POSIX tar archive
magic.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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