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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 18:12:57 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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In article <3c7f7k$cue@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:

>Did you convert the 1.1.5 FS's to 2.0 FS, because the above errors
>indicate that 2.0 did something to the super-block?  It alsmo may be
>symlink errors.

If he had, then fsck would not have liked the alternates, either.

>Something is happening to the super-blocks.  It may be symlinks,
>[...]

It's the clean bit, Nate.  The clean bit is only stored in the main
superblock, which is why fsck likes the first alternate.

-GAWollman

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