From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 02:38:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80A416A4BF for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE1A43FE9 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richardshea@fastmail.fm) Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 186CE1C76D2 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:38:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.133 ([10.202.2.133] helo=smtp.us2.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:38:45 -0400 Received: by smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id DF20474834; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:38:44 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Richard Shea" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:38:44 +1200 X-Epoch: 1063445925 X-Sasl-enc: eS7vu1ZtkckAiDqHpsoiTA Message-Id: <20030913093844.DF20474834@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> Subject: Possible ? - clean install but preserve one filesystem ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:38:47 -0000 Hi - I'm having problems upgrading 4.4 -> 4.8 but it's got to work by Monday so I'm looking at all my options. Before things went bad I backed up off the machine /etc and /usr/local/etc. Also took notes about file systems etc. I have one file system on its own IDE drive that I would like to preserve and have available after the upgrade. My question is this : if I act as if the machine had never had FreeBSD on it at all will a normal install in some way go digging around on that IDE drive and trash the contents ? It doesn't seem likely but it's important that it's safe. If not I guess I could re-install from scratch and only once the install was complete would I then tell FreeBSD about the IDE drive ? It's a long time since I did a clean install and I've sort of forgotten the degree to which FreeBSD probes for disks. Thanks Richard Shea. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 MO +64 21 296 6839 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++