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HFS + UFS problem
Authored by: eddydasquige on Apr 11, '02 11:01:18PM

It say's this in the read me, but I didn't read it untill after I'd screwed my system. If the drive that you set as you swap is not formated the same as your OS X drive it can (in my case did) hose up your system. OS X will not boot properly after the switch. It starts to boot, gets as far as the grey screen with the little mac in the middle, and then restarts. It will keep looping like this forever I suppose.

I havn't figured a way to fix it yet, but you can boot into the system if you boot from single user mode (command+s), and the simply logout from the command line, OS X will then continue to boot as normal.

It does not effect the ability to boot into OS9.



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HFS + UFS problem
Authored by: juissi on Apr 13, '02 11:25:56AM

I also screwed up my system with SwapCop and UFS + HFS volumes. I solved the problem... I found the file /etc/fstab which contained the following:

<pre>/dev/disk0s15 /Volumes/.swap hfs rw 1 2</pre>

I replaced SwapCop's rc with the backup SwapCop made, then I deleted (remember backups!!!) the fstab and problem was solved.



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HFS + UFS problem
Authored by: juissi on Apr 13, '02 11:30:05AM
ooops. I forget to choose HTML formatted post and I had too fast fingers... /etc/fstab looked like this:
/dev/disk0s15 /Volumes/.swap hfs rw 1 2


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