Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:35:37 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downgrade FreeBSD 5.1 or 5.2 -> 4.9 Message-ID: <167400000.1074800137@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <20040122193310.GA2758@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net> References: <9FCD15C952BD734DB8377A36E5032EF2F51189@de-raub-mail1.hygiene.sc a.se> <p0602048abc35b43cbdb2@[128.113.24.47]> <20040122193310.GA2758@memnoch.jk.homeunix.net>
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--==========B6C8E416ADD1DB339B77========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:33:10 -0800 John Kennedy=20 <jk@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@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 --==========B6C8E416ADD1DB339B77========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAECYJrRNGhTxJvdYRAl1zAJ44HvbQWNzIaZgnjn2ovo5nd6tcNACfcNn4 Pgggp2ETO+tyh1tlgyvWcvo= =mCHF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========B6C8E416ADD1DB339B77==========--
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