Problem circumvented: After reinstalling, I used newfs from w/in netbsd to
rebuild the filesystem on my /usr partition. It did not affect the root
partition in any noticable way, i.e. I can still boot, etc.

I still don't know why the filesystem wasn't clean if it was just made, 
nor do I know why the superblock was wrong on it. I am still concerned 
that I have overlapping partitions but I'm sick of reinstalling netbsd. 
I'm going to be a user now, and time will tell...

thanks for the help!

-1LT Avram Dorfman
HQ USAF Network Management
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On Wed, 8 May 1996, Ken Nakata wrote:

> > Actually, I was never able to mount the usr partition, so no, it wasn't
> > mounted when I *tried* to fsck it. However, the fsck simply quit saying
> > "BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH ALTERNATE
> > floating point exception"
> 
> Mount mounts the file system even when it complains that the file
> system isn't clean.  Though I have no idea why fsck should freak out
> like that.
> 
> > I can mount this partition in the installer, and put directories on it,
> > and they stay there. I can ls it, etc. But I can neither mount nor fsck
> > it when I'm actually in BSD. What can I do!
> 
> Hmm....
> 
> ken
>