From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 7 13:20:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13057 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:20:45 -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 NAA13038 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:20:40 -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 NAA07000; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:20:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: David Hawkins cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7 & Disk Slice In-Reply-To: <199808062045.NAA06967@ohio.river.org> 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 Thu, 6 Aug 1998, David Hawkins wrote: > We've been up for over 100 days on 2.2.5 and I was planning an upgrade > to REL_2.2, which I guess is cvsup'ing 2.2.7 now. > > Questions: > 1. any known problems with going from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7? > > 2. anything I can do beforehand about the disk slice? We have a 4 GB > SCSI disk. Do I need to do a MAKEDEV first? Modify /etc/fstab and give a full slice spec for the root partition (instead of just '/dev/sd0a', say '/dev/sd0s1a'). That's the biggest gotcha. > # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 24815 14982 7848 66% / > /dev/sd0s1h 921037 485284 362071 57% /river > /dev/sd0s1e 1986495 518810 1308766 28% /users > /dev/sd0s1g 396895 307649 57495 84% /usr > /dev/sd0s1f 595839 279853 268319 51% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc 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