From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 13:10:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAEB339 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:10:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC788FC0C for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF854B2013 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:37 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.56 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.56 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.562, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ZwUWrfnxj-QS for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:31 +0100 (CET) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.111] (c-195-216-043-059.ekt.thalamus.net [195.216.43.59]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD33D5E292 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:26 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <50A2445F.7040602@eskk.nu> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:15 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:10:03 -0000 I just read in another post about disklayout _____________________________________________________________ According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Before 9.0 fragments and blocks were 2k and 16k which doesn't play so well with 4k drives. ____________________________________________________________ I started thinking about the choices I have for upgrading my running 8.3 systems. I'm aware about of the procedure with freebsd-upgrade and rebuilding all ports according to man portmaster. Would you just do the upgrade or would you consider reinstalling? Would it be beneficial to make a fresh installation? Thanks /Leslie