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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:02:21 +0400 (GST)
From:      Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>
To:        Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
Cc:        "Alain G. Fabry" <alainfabry@belgacom.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Partitioning question
Message-ID:  <20070809130108.O10872@obelix.home.rakhesh.com>
In-Reply-To: <46BABC0A.1020404@boosten.org>
References:  <20070809065736.GA15402@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> <46BABC0A.1020404@boosten.org>

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Peter Boosten wrote:

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> Alain G. Fabry wrote:
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>> Is it possible after the installation of current on the 3rd partition that I can use my data files
>> (home directories) without messing up the permissions/etc?
>>
>
> As long as the UIDs are the same it should work.

Yup. And (not sure if this is the default) while installing 
FreeBSD-current tell it *not* to NewFS to second partition. Else you'd 
lose whatever home directories+data that are already there ...

Regards,
Rakhesh



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