Subject: Re: Does mkfs trash other partitions?
To: Lt Avram Dorfman , Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/08/1996 19:58:42
> Actually, I was never able to mount the usr partition, so no, it wasn't
> mounted when I *tried* to fsck it. However, the fsck simply quit saying
> "BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH ALTERNATE
> floating point exception"

Mount mounts the file system even when it complains that the file
system isn't clean.  Though I have no idea why fsck should freak out
like that.

> I can mount this partition in the installer, and put directories on it,
> and they stay there. I can ls it, etc. But I can neither mount nor fsck
> it when I'm actually in BSD. What can I do!

Hmm....

ken