From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 13:32:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23073 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:32:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22959 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:31:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA26736; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:31:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ryan Turner cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: release vs snap In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980804141939.0097eaf0@pop.erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Ryan Turner wrote: > I have a 11.5 gig drive and only 3.0 snap is able to see all of it. I know > you should not use snap if you just want it for a bug fix, but this is the > only way not to loose 3 gigs of space. If I use 3.0 snap, will I have lots > of other problems? Snapshots are generally OK, but there may be subtle errors. The big problem is the username length change - it tends to mess up utmp when 2.x-compiled and 3.x-compiled apps screw up the format. MAke sure you update ssh and X and you should be ok. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message