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- From: vandel@di.epfl.ch (Jean-Marc Vandel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: ufs boot partitions are certain death!
- Message-ID: <VANDEL.93Jan25163132@disuns2.epfl.ch>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 15:31:30 GMT
- References: <1jm1btINN356@zikzak.apana.org.au> <1993Jan23.182230.3822@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
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- In-reply-to: blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch's message of 23 Jan 93 18:22:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.182230.3822@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
- blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:
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- > amiga.physik is probably the busiest Amix machine in the world. And
-
- And litamiga.epfl.ch the second busiest ;-)
-
- > it has, you guessed it, an *ufs* boot partition. We've yet to see a
- > munged inode. The boot partition is probably being fsck'ed 4 times
- > a week (due to frequent reboots). Maybe we were just lucky, but I'd
- > rather suspect that you had media problems or a broken version of
- > the ufs. Do you use Amix 2.1 with all patches applied?
-
- Are you really sure to use ufs ? I installed Amix 2.1 asking for an ufs root
- partition, but when I did a 'showrdb' I was very surprised to see :
-
- # Name Start Blocks Size Flags
-
- 1: UNIX_Root 128 307200 150 MB mb P0 C0 F0x554e4901
- ^^
- 2: UNIX_Swap 307328 40960 20 MB Mb P0 C0 F0x444f5301
- 3: UNIX_Boot 348288 4096 2 MB MB P2 C2 F0x554e4900
-
- Yes, that's an s5 partition ! There must be a bug in the install script :-(
-
- Now, what's the easiest way to reformat this partition in ufs without having to
- reinstall everything ? Is it worth the time spent ?
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- Jean-Marc Vandel
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