Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu> wrote:

>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.

I know the BSD 4.4 filesystem created by default in newfs is not 
compatible with the Installer, but I thought the one created with "newfs 
-O" was.  I could swear that's how I installed my last system and it's 
still up and running.  Have I been saved by dumb luck and intense 
stupidity?  ;-)

-bob