On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 21:09:40 -0500 (EST),
> "Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@prez.buf.servtech.com> wrote:
> > I no longer keep mkfs around, so I just
> > went into NetBSD & newfs'd it.
> 
> If you do this, you may find the Installer unable to mount the
> partition (or worse, Installer may even trash the filesystem; it
> happened to me once before).

I know...I only used that on the new /home partition. If I were going to
put a whole new NetBSD system up, I would definitely find the 5 minutes it
takes to get mkfs. I was just being lazy with the knowlege that the newfs
wouldn't be any trouble just on that partition.

Thanks for the warning, though,
Mike