Re: Mounting ext2fs instead of ffs after 5.99.60 (SOLVED)

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> (Although it still can be confusing when somebody had reformatted a
> Linux disk with NetBSD.)

newfs(8) should explicitly zap possible ext2fs magic?

Index: mkfs.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sbin/newfs/mkfs.c,v
retrieving revision 1.110
diff -u -p -r1.110 mkfs.c
--- mkfs.c      25 Aug 2011 16:17:58 -0000      1.110
+++ mkfs.c      4 Feb 2012 19:36:29 -0000
@@ -615,6 +615,8 @@ mkfs(const char *fsys, int fi, int fo,
                        for (sz = SBLOCKSIZE; sz <= 0x10000; sz <<= 1)
                                zap_old_sblock(roundup(sblkoff, sz));
                }
+               /* Also zap possible Ext2fs magic leftover. */
+               zap_old_sblock(1024);   /* XXX: SBOFF in ext2fs.h */
 
                if (isappleufs) {
                        struct appleufslabel appleufs;


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Izumi Tsutsui