Ken,

Here's how I built a new fs on just the usr partition:

1) ran mkfs, picked my drive's scsi id
2) mkfs offered three partitions: root, usr, swap. I chose usr
	these are the correct partitions.
	root previously had mkfs run on it
	root had devices built
	root had distribution installed & booted successfully

In other words, the drive was already partitioned & mkfs'd (on root & 
usr). I re-ran mkfs on just usr for the reasons indicated below. At no 
point did I bother running mkfs on the swap partition.

-1LT Avram Dorfman
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On Wed, 8 May 1996, Ken Nakata wrote:

> > I've sucessfully installed all of the distribution packages for NetBSD 
> > (SE/30 40MHz Daystar 8/1G), and successfully booted, etc.
> > 
> > Then, I tried to mount my usr partition, and was told to fsck it first. 
> > Fsck died with a floating point error (go figure). So... I decided to use 
> > mkfs to build a new file system on just the partition.
> > 
> > Now it doesn't even boot. It crashes, and jumps to the debugger, just 
> > after checking the PRAM (right before the "which shell" prompt would come 
> > up). I'm using single user mode, BTW.
> 
> Can't tell what you did wrong just from this much of information.
> What did you exactly do to "build a new file system on just the
> partition"?  And what are the partitions you had at the moment?
> 
> ken
>