From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 22:07:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA26774 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 22:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA26767 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 22:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01I40H09OFU0003SM4@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 22:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 22:07:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Using Old FreeBSD Installation as a File System To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I40H09OFU2003SM4@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-VMS-Cc: ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've got 2.0.5 on one hard drive and 2.1 on the other and I've been mounting the various partitions on the one that isn't running so I have access to all the files. Once I'm sure 2.1 is running as I want it to, what difficulties might there be in simply deleting the files in 2.0.5 and using the / and /usr partitions as file systems? Perhaps, for example, by moving home directories to the 2.0.5 space? Annelise