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From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:08:33 +0200
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Subject: Re: glabel for ufs: size check is overzealous?
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2009/4/22 Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>:
> on 21/04/2009 21:43 Ivan Voras said the following:
>> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> I don't see why it should and - no, it actually does not.
>>> fsck checks only filesystem's internal consistency, it doesn't check media size, etc.
>>
>> Well yes, if the number of blocks is really incorrect it should be
>> visible from the arrangement of the metadata but still - that makes the
>> field almost useless doesn't it?
>
> How do you mean?
> The field tells the filesystem size, how it can be useless?

If nothing checks it and everything works, I'd say it's usefulness is
a bit limited...