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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Sharing partitions between FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and 2.0
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Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <D0Hy2E.2E9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <3c7f7k$cue@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <3c7ib9$ipu@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1994 19:54:02 GMT
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In article <3c7ib9$ipu@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) writes:
>It's the clean bit, Nate.  The clean bit is only stored in the main
>superblock, which is why fsck likes the first alternate.

Is it safe to just modify the 1.1.5 fsck to ignore the clean bit?  Or
even better to accept the filesystem as clean if it's set?  (I assume
that building the 2.0 fsck under 1.1.5 would be too painful.)

-- Richard
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