On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Colin Wood wrote:

> ADAMGOOD@delphi.com wrote:
> 
> > When I did a 'df' on it (before 'fsck'ing) it showed that several
> > hundred thousand blocks had already been allocated, but I had just 'newfs'ed
> > it from the Mac side.  Hmmm . . .  I 'newfs'ed it again from the BSD side,
> > and this time 'df' showed that the partition was indeed empty.
> 
> Kinda strange....did you run 'fsck' and then look, or did you just go and
> 'newfs' it?

<snip>

> > Oh, one thing I forgot - in addition to the mount root/not clean problem,
> > when I try to use the installer on that disk, and I do an 'ls' it says
> > something about bad inodes and dies.  Not a good sign, but that doesn't
> > happen once I'm in BSD, so I used 'hfs' to copy all the tarballs to the
> > BSD side and installed them from there.
> 
> Hmmm....bad inode or no such inode?  I get some kind of "no such file"
> type error all the time in the Installer, but it doesn't crash...I'd
> recommend using hfs anyway, though.  It's _alot_ faster than the
> Installer.

I get this too, but only on the partition that I newfs'ed from the NetBSD
side.  I think NetBSD's newfs must default to the newer level 2 (I think
that's the right number) filesystems, which the installer doesn't support
at this time.  (Perhaps the default should be changed until such time as
it does?)  If you use newfs, try specifying the filesystem revision level
on the command line (man newfs for details).  Of course that's only
speculation, there could easily be other reasons, that just seems the most
likely guess.


David

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