From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 13:29:58 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA08882 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:29:58 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA08871 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:29:54 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id QAA12387; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:24:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 16:24:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Questions about 2.0.5-R To: bmk@dtr.com cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506131958.MAA00413@everest> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 13 Jun 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote: > Anyways, I am preparing to upgrade my main server. Can 2.0.5-R read my > old (2.0-950322-SNAP) partitions? The reason I ask is because I don't > really completely trust my tape drive, and I'd like to dump all of my > old filesystems to a large scratch disk that I have on hand and then > simply recreate my partitions and restore /usr/local and such. why not cpio'ing the data to a file on the scratch disk, install 2.0.5R, and then bring the data back. after all, the floppies and the install use cpio to create 2.0.5R. Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346