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From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Mounting A/UX 1.1 and 2.0 together
Message-ID: <45197@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 90 21:40:51 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.042203.122@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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brian@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us (Brian S. Schang) writes:

>I am having trouble mounting A/UX 1.1 and 2.0 together.  I can mount
>A/UX 2.0 filesystems using A/UX 1.1, but cannot mount 1.1 filesystems
>using 2.0.  The 2.0 mount command tells me that the 1.1 filesystem
>is a 'dirty filesystem'.  Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a way
>to do this?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks...

The A/UX 2.0 release notes cover this.  Page 10 says you must run fsck
on the 1.1 (SysV) file system so that fsck can mark such file systems to
conform to a new mechanism for distinguishing between file systems that
need to be checked and file systems that do not need to be checked.

--Brian Bechtel		blob@apple.com		"My opinion, not Apple's"