From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 14:05:31 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 CF2751D6 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:05:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd8@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27CB8FC15 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:05:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.3] ([173.88.197.103]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:04:26 -0800 Message-ID: <50A25367.5060309@a1poweruser.com> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:04:23 -0500 From: Fbsd8 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leslie Jensen Subject: Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1 References: <50A2445F.7040602@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <50A2445F.7040602@eskk.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Nov 2012 14:04:26.0733 (UTC) FILETIME=[CAA829D0:01CDC1A7] X-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-Authenticated-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-EchoSenderHash: [fbsd8]-[a1poweruser*com] Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 14:05:31 -0000 Leslie Jensen wrote: > > 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 > I all ways reinstall from scratch using disc1.iso burned to cdrom as each new OS Release becomes available to the public. Followed by pkg-add -r for all my ports. I even use the pkg versions of dependents that are required by php because I have to recompile the php port to turn on the apache module and turn off everything else. This way I only compile php and not its dependents. I have the pkg_add -r commands embedded in a script that automates the whole procedures. The installed packages stay at whatever version they are at as of new OS Release time. I do not update running packages during the life of the installed OS Release. Been doing this since Release 3.0 without any problems. Install process takes about 30 minutes. Time for downloading disc1.iso and burning it is not included in that 30 minutes.