Subject: Re: Partitions and superblocks
To: T. Sean (Theo) Schulze <71410.25@CompuServe.COM>
From: Rolf Braun <rbraun@geocities.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/01/1997 17:01:34
>In the last week I acquired a Quantum Maverick 540MB HD which I
>partitioned into two equal MacOS partitions using FWB HD Tool Kit.  I
>then ran mkfs 1.4 on the partitions to change them to NetBSD usr
>filesystems and then formatted them. (Did I do this backwards?) I
>"cpout"'d my fstab and changed it to reflect the two new partitions.
>Specifically, my old fstab read:

1. You really should have created A/UX partitions, not MacOS partitions.
2. mkfs does the formatting, provided that the disk is already partitioned.
Don't format it again.

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