On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Duncan McQueen wrote:

> I keep on getting a file system consistency check error, after I install
> NetBSD.  Is there a way to do the whole installation process inside of
> NetBSD (when I use newfs, the check passes, but the Mac mkfs app seems to
> produce the error)?  Or is there a way to fix the current system (It says
> values in super block disagree with those in first alternate)...
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Well, you're probably using defaults for newfs - that defaults to the 
"new" BSD4.4 format file system, which the Mac-side mkfs doesn't understand.

If you really want to use the Mac-side utils, then use "newfs -O" (that's 
a capital-Oh, not a zero!) to create a BSD4.3 file system.