At 9:37 AM -0600 2/6/01, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Josh Kuperman wrote:
>
> > /dev/sd0g      882193   273902    520071      34%    /usr
> > /dev/sd0f     1184662  1004683     61512      94%    /home
>
> > And after I cd'ed to /home the largegst file is the emacs package at
> > 11 MB. And even adding everything else it should be relatively empty.
>
>A lot of people have noticed odd problems with Mkfs created
>filesystems. Mkfs creates old-style, type 1 ffs partitions that are
>more compatible with the Booter than they type 3 that newfs makes by
>default. For your /home partition, you could just tar up the files,
>"newfs" it, and put the files back, and that will probably straighten
>it all out.

I also thought that there was a fix to mkfs to solve the problem.  He 
could possibly just make sure he has the latest version of the MacOS 
utility and that would do the same.

In any case I think he's stuck with something close to a reinstall in 
order to fix the problem.


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