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- From: blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
- Subject: Re: ufs boot partitions are certain death!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.180640.18049@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
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- Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Computer Science
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- References: <VANDEL.93Jan25163132@disuns2.epfl.ch>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:06:40 GMT
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- Jean-Marc Vandel (vandel@di.epfl.ch) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan23.182230.3822@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
- : blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:
- : > it has, you guessed it, an *ufs* boot partition. We've yet to see a
- : > munged inode.
- : 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 :
- :
- : 1: UNIX_Root 128 307200 150 MB mb P0 C0 F0x554e4901
- : ^^
- : Yes, that's an s5 partition ! There must be a bug in the install script :-(
-
- The DosType entry doesn't matter at all. We entered RESV as the DosType
- for all our ufs partitions without any problems.
-
- : Now, what's the easiest way to reformat this partition in ufs without having to
- : reinstall everything ? Is it worth the time spent ?
-
- Are you sure your partition is s5? Don't believe the DosType ;-)
-
- Regards
- --Martin
-
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- Martin A. Blatter - blatter@ifi.unizh.ch, blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
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