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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Sharing partitions between FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and 2.0
Date: 8 Dec 1994 17:54:10 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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In article <D0Hy2E.2E9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>I guess that this is because of the clean flag in the super-block -
>is that right?

That is correct.

>- is there a fix?

Other than what you've hit on, I'm not aware of any.

>- is it safe to use the filesystems un-fsck'd under 1.1.5.1 (that is,
>  as safe as usual)?

I didn't have any problems during the couple of days that I was
running this way.  Other than the clean flag, 2.0 will not change your
filesystem in a way that would confuse 1.1.5.

-GAWollman

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