Trashed a UFS2 file system from 4.8-Release

[Lukas Ertl]

> So, the question is, if RELENG_4 fsck doesn't grok UFS2 file systems,
> why did it try to fsck it? Shouldn't it just give up when it realizes
> that it's not a UFS1 fs?

Probably because there once was a UFS1 fs on that partition. The UFS2
superblock is located further back, and when you newfs a UFS2 fs, the old
superblock doesn't get overwritten. See also bin/51619.

best regards,
le

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