Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!desint!geoff From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: S5 file system magic number (was (Re: Pixel/80 trashed fs) Message-ID: <281@desint.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 02:38:36 EST Article-I.D.: desint.281 Posted: Tue Jan 6 02:38:36 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Jan-87 22:38:43 EST References: <718@cooper.UUCP> <145@piaget.UUCP> <125@tdi2.UUCP> <10848@sun.uucp> Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA Lines: 13 In article <10848@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes: > Requiring a valid magic number would have required that the root file > system be fixed before an S5 kernel was booted on it...I figure they just > decided this was too much trouble. Too bad. The pre-conversion fix could have been done with a one-line script: echo '0x3fc?W' | adb -w /dev/root - > /dev/null -- Geoff Kuenning {hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff