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From: eric@fudge.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer)
Subject: Re: adding whiteout support to a file system
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Iain Hibbert <plunky@skate.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> you can upgrade the filesystem with "fsck -c [0123]" to the level you
> want, see the fsck_ffs manpage for more details..

That was the problem.  Thanks!  I had originally made the file
system my just using newfs with no options.

Eric