Re: fsck's, "current" vs "earlier releases"

2002-11-23 Thread Rob
Hi Garance, This happened to me also. The solution was to run fsck on the older versions, but tell it to use an alternate superblock. See man fsck. I forget the details, but it worked for me. Rob. Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > I'm playing around with installing a number of freebsd releases on

Re: fsck's, "current" vs "earlier releases"

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > I have 4.6.2-release, 4.7-release, and 5.0-dp2-release on a single PC. > After some bouncing between versions, and an occasional 'disklabel' > command, I seem to have the partitions for 4.6.2 in an odd state. > Both 4.7 and 5.0-dp2 have no problem mounting them, but if I

fsck's, "current" vs "earlier releases"

2002-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I'm playing around with installing a number of freebsd releases on the same PC, and something came up which makes me a little uneasy. I understand why I am seeing what I'm seeing, I'm just uneasy about what it might mean for people who will pick up 5.0-release and start testing it on their own mach