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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Error: root directory is not a multiple of the cluster size in length.
Date: 14 Aug 1995 14:31:27 +0200
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Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>... IMHO, unless someone can point out why
>this warning is needed, it should not be printed unless you are running
>the kernel in verbose mode... It confuses WAY to many people (ok, I'll
>admit it, even me :-)) who run into this ``warning'' for the first time...

#ifdef DIAGNOSTIC
...
#endif

???
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)