>From: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
>Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 08:20:33 +0100 (BST)
>
>> >mount_lfs: Operation not supported by device
>> 
>> You need to change the partition type in the disklabel to BSD_LFS
>> instead of BSD_FFS.
>
>This bit I never understood. Why is it useful to have the *type* of
>file system stored (and restricted to) in the disklabel ? Surely various
>mount programs etc can look at magic number etc before working ?

I went looking for disklabel-checking code in vfs* and lfs* last
night, and I couldn't find any.  So the EOPNOTSUPP may come from
something else.
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