Downloaded the new Mkfs, killed the whole installation (on purpose ;-)
) and df happily reports the "correct" (hopefully!) values.

	Thanks muchly Bob,

	Ryan

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   Ryan Ordway   *   Systems Administrator   *   GST Whole Earth Networks
           520 SW 6th Ave. Suite 300, Portland, OR 97204


On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Bob Nestor wrote:

>Frederick Bruckman  (fb@enteract.com) wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Ryan Ordway wrote:
>>
>>> 	Also, the reason I was going to upgrade was I'm having problems with
>>> df reporting strange numbers. I consistently get 111% used, independent of 
>>how
>>> much disk space I'm really using.
>>
>>> 	I've got 3 partitions:
>>> 
>>> 	sd0a /		~600MB
>>> 	sd0d /home	~200MB
>>> 	sd0g /var	~125MB
>>> 	sd0b swap	~80MB
>>> 
>>> 	I'm going to try reformatting the drive entirely and rearranging the
>>> partitions. Perhaps the ordering of the partitions is confusing the system.
>>
>>The bug is probably in Mkfs. It only makes old style filesystems, the
>>kind you get with "newfs -O ...", but not _exactly_ the same. I'm
>>going to be uploading an install kernel with the 1.4.2pre snapshot
>>today or tomorrow. The partitioning feature is reported not to work,
>>but newfs should be fine. But note: 1) The Installer only works with
>>old-style partitions; 2) The Booter works OK with new-style
>>partitions, but only if the kernel file is created in the root
>>directory (untar directly into /, else use "cp -p" or "cp" instead of
>>"mv"; sysinstall from an unmounted partition should DTRT).
>
>There's a new version of Mkfs 1.47 that fixes the bug I introduced in 
>1.46. It's been uploaded to the NetBSD FTP site in the arch/mac68k area.
>
>The partitioning feature in sysinst works if you have installed the 
>appropiate patch to the kernel before building the installation kernel.  
>What sometimes fails for users is the newfs step in sysinst.  This is in 
>the MI section of the code and I've heard from some others that it also 
>sometimes fails in other ports.  Right now I don't know what the problem 
>is so I haven't got it fixed.
>
>There's also an installation kernel with the updated INSTALL 
>documentation on my system. I know it works for some systems since it's 
>what I used to partition and install the entire 1.4.1 system on the disk 
>I'm currently running from.
>
>-bob
>