--On Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:33:10 -0800 John Kennedy <jk_at_jk.homeunix.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:19:06PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> ... You will have much less trouble if you just resign yourself to >> backing-up the data you need to some safe place, and do a fresh >> install (ie, reformat the drives using the 4.9 installation discs, >> and install everything from scratch). > > Will 4.x and 5.x play nice if they have a partition (slice?) in common? > > For example, /home that was mounted by both a 4.x and 5.x depending on > whatever was booted at the moment. Probably have UFS issues, but I don't > know if 5.x will "corrupt" a 4.x filesystem. > > I downgraded via reinstall once, but set up two partitions so I could > work on either one if I wanted to. I haven't tried mix-n-match though. AS long as they are all UFS1, it'll be fine. I do this with my /shared (and actually all of them) partition: $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2a 1030702 121770 826476 13% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad0s2e 257838 1624 235588 1% /tmp /dev/ad0s2f 8510490 4915226 2914426 63% /usr /dev/ad0s2d 515886 79668 394948 17% /var /dev/ad0s3e 37054050 9635386 24454340 28% /shared /dev/ad0s1a 1032142 83154 866418 9% /stable /dev/ad0s1e 516062 58538 416240 12% /stable/var /dev/ad0s1g 7480506 2061124 4820942 30% /stable/usr /dev/ad0s1f 257998 2142 235218 1% /stable/tmp procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc $ If was booted off stable, the -CURRENT stuff would be on /current/... LER > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler_at_lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
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