From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 3 14:58:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EDDE106564A for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:58:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199358FC2B for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:58:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KNT00FY92Y8UV21@VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4A76FB32.9050601@videotron.ca> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:58:57 -0000 Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that files will not be overwritten? -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php