Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:57:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: strange newfs results Message-ID: <permail-2009061215575880e26a0b00001209-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <20090612151632.GD48776@hoeg.nl>
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oh. i always thought the boot loader was stored at the beginning of ad0 right after the MBR. my bad. ;) thanks for the hints. Ed Schouten schrieb am 2009-06-12: > Hi Alexander, > * Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote: > > 1. pax -w -f /dev/ad0p2 . > > 2. file -s /dev/ad0p2 -> POSIX tar archive > > 3. newfs -U -L usr /dev/ad0p2 > > 4. file -s /dev/ad0p2 -> POSIX tar archive > I'm not a file system expert, but doesn't newfs leave the first few > KB's > of the file system untouched, to store a boot loader? This means that > the first few bytes of the disk still contain the POSIX tar archive > magic.
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