On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, John Marohn wrote:

> >Is 1.45 the latest version of Mkfs?
> >
> >I used Silverlining to partition a hard drive as follows:
> >/     => 100Mb
> >swap  =>  64Mb
> >/usr  => 450Mb  (actually what's left over)
> >/home => 100Mb
> >
> >The problems are:
> >
> >1.  I format the following partitions in order: /, /usr, /home.  After
> >    the install, df reports the size of /home to be about 613Mb with
> >    about 30Mb free.  I did a newfs from the UNIX side and df reports
> >    the size to be 99Mb.

We need to make this VERY CLEAR. Filesystems made by newfs are not
compatable with the installer. They're close, but not quite.

> >2.  After severe file system damage, I decided to re-install everything.
> >    I formated the partitions in this order: /, /home, /usr.  After
> >    installing everything, df reports the size of /home to be 190MB and
> >    /usr to be around 600MB.  I didn't trust this so....
> >
> >3.  I reformatted again. This time I formatted one partition and then quit
> >    Mkfs.  I did this for each partition. The order is: /usr, /home, /.
> >    The results are pending  ( I'm installing the minimum as I am
> >    writing this).
> 
> The results are in: df reports correct (expected) sizes for the partitions.
> Now I will continue the install.  Maybe it is the install program messing
> things up. Hopefully not.
> 
> One more annoyance.  The file systems had to fsck'd.  I thought that the
> install program should do this.

That's the problem. The fs is close enough for the installer to try to
use, but different enough that you have to use fsck to fix things.

Take care,

Bill