Subject: Re: Partitions and superblocks
To: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/02/1997 12:39:04
> > One thing to watch out for: if you create MacOS partitions, you must
> > unmount them (drag 'em to the trash) in the Finder BEFORE you run mkfs to
> > convert them to NetBSD partitions.
> 
> > 2. Go back to the Finder. Drag any MacOS partitions you may have created to
> > the Trash to unmount them.
> 
> Actually, the above is unnecessary, at least in my experience.  It's just 
> a little disturbing to have them still available as Mac volumes when 
> you've just converted them to NetBSD volumes.  I'm fairly sure they're 
> unmounted upon NetBSD boot, so they should be fine when they come up there.
> I also don't remember having any trouble installing onto them after 
> having run Mkfs on them.

Colin,

I think the problem is that MacOS might decide to flush it's cache on the
file system (that isn't anymore)....

Take care,

Bill