Re: newfs and mount vs. half-baked disks

From: Matthew D. Fuller (fullermd_at_over-yonder.net)
Date: 11/15/03

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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>

    On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:14:42AM +0100 I heard the voice of
    Poul-Henning Kamp, and lo! it spake thus:
    > >On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:56:14AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
    > >
    > >How do you handle the situation when the master superblock on / is
    > >hosed and you need to find the filesystem parameters (in
    > >/etc/ufs.conf) before you can access /?
    >
    > I usually take great care to always newfs / with default parameters,
    > because then I can use newfs -N /dev/ad0a to see where the superblocks
    > are to be found.

    Doesn't always help much...

    My / has 8192/1024 block/frags, and I somehow expect other defaults
    things have changed since last I newfs'd it. 

    -- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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