Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 09:52:22 +0200 From: "Christophe Fiorio, LIRMM 67-41-85-78" <fiorio@lirmm.fr> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SNAP-041295 -> 2.05 Message-ID: <199506160752.JAA18370@lirmm.lirmm.fr>
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Hi,
A friend of mine (hello Philippe), says that to upgrade my system I
must format all my FreeBSD disk and install all from the
beginning. This in order to use the new slice scheme.
I can't believe that! Is there no way to upgrade my system without
losing all my data? Is this new slice scheme necessary?
Is there a dirty trick to avoid formating the disk? (e.g. doing only
a sort of disklabel.). It seems that the bounds of the partitions are
counted from the beginning of the slice and no more from the beginning
of the disk.
Some precisions: I have a 486 DX/2 66 with PCI bus and FreeBSD is
installed on my second hard disk (a 520 Mb).
Christophe.
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