From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 20 8:24:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from castle.jp.freebsd.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A74637B419 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:24:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castle.jp.freebsd.org (8.9.3+3.2W/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA41880 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:24:34 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) In-Reply-To: References: <20011120082101T.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 XEmacs/21.5 (alfalfa) X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 19 From: Makoto Matsushita To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Sysinstall is still horribly broken. Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 01:24:32 +0900 Message-Id: <20011121012432J.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> 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 jhb> Err, well, when we run fsck on an existing partition, we jhb> shouldn't say 'fsck /dev/ad0s1a', we should use 'fsck_ffs jhb> /dev/ad0s1a'. Does that make sense now? We shouldn't be calling jhb> fsck_4.2bsd for these filesystems because they aren't 4.2BSD file jhb> systems per se, they are FFS, possibly with softupdates. That's make sence to me. We only run fsck to FFS, so it's safe to change 'fsck' to 'fsck_ffs'. jhb> With devfs /dev should have all existing disks and partitions. jhb> At least if you open the device it will create it for you if it jhb> is valid. We should always use the devfs /dev if it is present jhb> and fall back to /mnt/dev from the CD if it is not. Maybe we can try to put mount_devfs and mount devfs to /mnt/dev. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message