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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Sharing partitions between FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and 2.0 Date: 8 Dec 1994 17:54:10 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3c7h82$ht1@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <D0Hy2E.2E9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <D0Hy2E.2E9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >I guess that this is because of the clean flag in the super-block - >is that right? That is correct. >- is there a fix? Other than what you've hit on, I'm not aware of any. >- is it safe to use the filesystems un-fsck'd under 1.1.5.1 (that is, > as safe as usual)? I didn't have any problems during the couple of days that I was running this way. Other than the clean flag, 2.0 will not change your filesystem in a way that would confuse 1.1.5. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant