Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:10:07 -0600 (CST) From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) To: john.saunders@scitec.com.au (John Saunders) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Important change warning. (long version) Message-ID: <199803090710.BAA04713@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <3503882E.C90B6AE3@scitec.com.au> from "John Saunders" at Mar 9, 98 05:11:58 pm
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> > Don't know why some people get so emotional about the name of a device. > If FreeBSD is to move forward we all must accept that change is > inevitable. Mike also did a good job of warning us before hand. 3 hours advance notice ? or I just missed something ? ;) > > I also suspect that if you stuff up the make world you could still > boot up in single user mode and correct the situation since it > doesn't read /etc/fstab. Or reboot with the old kernel as suggested. Sitting in front of all your computers you might be forgetting that There are plenty (or at least - quite a few) of people who are doing such upgrades remotely... THat's just emotions. No, serious questions. I am a bit confused: what would be the behavior of an updated system with the disk which was divided as follows: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 31775 24103 5130 82% / /dev/wd0s1g 1004015 558208 365486 60% /home /dev/wd0s2e 63567 19 58463 0% /tmp /dev/wd0s1e 500463 290300 170126 63% /usr /dev/wd0s2f 2980238 645811 2096008 24% /usr2 /dev/wd0s2g 2878330 2485211 162853 94% /usr3 /dev/wd0s1f 98479 2869 87732 3% /var /dev/wd0s1h 98802 23382 67516 26% /var/log Also, If a have an "inherited" computer - how can I tell whether it has an old or a new type of slices without going into /stand/sysinstall .... ? fdisk alone doesn't seem to provide any information about that.. (I am trying to compare a disk which has just one FreeBSD partition, but in one case partitioned in a compatibility way, and in a FreeBSD-dedicated way in the second case). Thanks, IgoR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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