On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Frederick Bruckman <fredb@fb.sa.enteract.com> wrote:
> 
> >It's a matter of personal taste, mostly. I've experimented with it both
> >ways, and it doesn't seem to matter much, either way. I can think of a
> >couple reasons to have a seperate root partition. 1) The mac68k booter
> >only works with old-style 4.2BSD partitions. A seperate /usr can use the
> >new 4.3 filesystem, after being made with newfs. 
> 
> It's true that both Mkfs and the Installer only deal with 4.2BSD type 
> filesystems, but is this also true for the Booter?  I could swear I made 
> my current root partition a 4.4BSD type and it's been booting just fine 
> for months using the latest Booter.

Hmm. You might be right about that. I took the conservative approach, of
using `newfs -O' the last time I formatted. You can see for sure with 

	dumpfs /dev/rsdxa | head -2

Mine shows an fslevel of 1. Yours should be 2, or 3.