>From: Waldi Ravens <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net>
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 02:51:54 +0100 (MET-1)
>
>Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>
>>    No problem. When newdosfs(8) sets the number of reserved sectors to
>>    2 instead of the usual 1, the second reserved sector can be used to
>>    store timestamps and other usefull information (should of course be
>>    protected by a magic number and checksum).
>> 
>> This would not work with original MS-DOS created filesystems, possibly
>> coexisting on a dual use harddisk or inserted into the floppy disk,
>> would it?
>
>No, it wouldn't, fsck would either always or never run on such
>filesystems. But creating a new filesystem is not an extremely
>complicated operation, is it?

It is if you have files on the filesystem and lack a backup device.
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