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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400
From:      "Kenta Suzumoto" <kentas@hush.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Reinstall without reformat
Message-ID:  <20131013172430.71AA26018E@smtp.hushmail.com>

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Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk?
I have one directory of data that I want to keep. I can boot from the
installer and rm every directory except that (/bin /boot etc), but how
could I install the OS from there? I've done ZFS on root installs with
the shell and mounting the zpool to /mnt, would that work here too?




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