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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:20:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrade 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7 & Disk Slice
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808071319350.15104-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199808062045.NAA06967@ohio.river.org>

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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, David Hawkins wrote:

> We've been up for over 100 days on 2.2.5 and I was planning an upgrade
> to REL_2.2, which I guess is cvsup'ing 2.2.7 now. 
> 
> Questions:
> 1. any known problems with going from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7?
> 
> 2. anything I can do beforehand about the disk slice? We have a 4 GB
> SCSI disk. Do I need to do a MAKEDEV first?

Modify /etc/fstab and give a full slice spec for the root partition
(instead of just '/dev/sd0a', say '/dev/sd0s1a').  That's the biggest
gotcha.

> # df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/sd0a       24815    14982     7848    66%    /
> /dev/sd0s1h    921037   485284   362071    57%    /river
> /dev/sd0s1e   1986495   518810  1308766    28%    /users
> /dev/sd0s1g    396895   307649    57495    84%    /usr
> /dev/sd0s1f    595839   279853   268319    51%    /var
> procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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