Subject: Re: df gives negative capacity
To: None <rnestor@augustmail.com, paul@wakawaka.com, port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Paul Sander <paul@wakawaka.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/12/2000 12:47:19
>--- Forwarded mail from rnestor@augustmail.com

>Paul Sander  (paul@wakawaka.com) wrote:

>>The Mkfs version I'm using is the one that has no version number in its
>>name on the NetBSD distribution.  (There are two or three versions of all
>>of Mkfs, Installer, and Booter; the older ones seem to have version numbers
>>in their names.)
>>
>You'd have to be using a version of Mkfs that's older than dirt then. The 
>SCSI ID/selection screen has the version number at the top.

>>What's causing this, and how do I fix it?

>Most likely what you've done is used Mkfs 1.46 which no longer exists 
>because it has this problem.  Look in arch/mac68k/installation for Mkfs 
>1.47 and use it instead.  It solves the problem you describe.

It turns out that I was using the default version that's supplied with
NetBSD 1.4.1 as downloaded from the web site, which is v1.46.  The older
v1.45 is also available for download with the distribution.

I dug down into the -current snapshot and found v1.47, and it has indeed
fixed the problem.

>--- End of forwarded message from rnestor@augustmail.com

Thanks!