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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!sun.lclark.edu!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!fastrac.llnl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Sharing partitions between FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and 2.0 Message-ID: <D0ICM2.AuA@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <D0Hy2E.2E9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <3c7f7k$cue@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <3c7ib9$ipu@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 19:54:02 GMT Lines: 14 In article <3c7ib9$ipu@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) writes: >It's the clean bit, Nate. The clean bit is only stored in the main >superblock, which is why fsck likes the first alternate. Is it safe to just modify the 1.1.5 fsck to ignore the clean bit? Or even better to accept the filesystem as clean if it's set? (I assume that building the 2.0 fsck under 1.1.5 would be too painful.) -- Richard -- Satan himself, in a sermon preached from the pulpit of North Berwick church, comforted his many servants by assuring them that no harm could befall them "sa lang as their hair wes on, an sould newir latt ane teir fall fra thair ene". - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough