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From: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Partitioning RAD:
Message-ID: <287@gtss.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 88 21:57:28 GMT
References: <3012@sugar.uu.net> <282@gtss.UUCP> <3702@druwy.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Organization: Georgia Tech School of Physics
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In article <3702@druwy.ATT.COM> mab@druwy.ATT.COM (Alan Bland) writes:
)In article <282@gtss.UUCP>, chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) writes:
)> When I set up RAD: under FFS (but not under SFS), I seemed to have to format
)> it before using it even though it was a single filesystem, contrary to your
)> remark above.
)
)My RAD: is setup under FFS as a single filesystem, and it does not need
)to be formatted.  After mounting, RAD: is automagically formatted on cold
)boot (my MountList specifies Mount = 1, or whatever the parameter is, that
)tells it to load the handler immediately when mounted rather than waiting
)until the first access).  Make sure your MountList includes both the FFS
)handler and the dos type (I forget the exact names of the parameters).

Mount = 1.  That's the ticket.  Now not only does my FFS RAD: not need to be
formatted, but it has regained the quasi-recoverability (it goes in C00000
memory in my machine), like vd0:'s, that I had hoped for.

Examination of my startup-sequence reminds me that I had RAD: recovering
before while a slow-file system, but conversion to FFS without Mount = 1
if RAD: lives in C00000 apparently prevents any recoverability at all.

I was surprised, after adding 'Mount = 1' to my mountlist and removing the
format from my startup-sequence, when I rebooted with that disk and none
of the expected copies to RAD: occurred.  When I looked, RAD:'s contents
were still intact from yesterday, when it had been mounted without
'Mount = 1' in my mountlist.  In fact, in the meantime, I had even rebooted
twice from other disks that don't even know about RAD:, but use vd0: instead.

Thanks.  That hit the spot.
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Charles Cleveland  Georgia Tech School of Physics  Atlanta, GA 30332-0430
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