From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 14:32:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sol (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35C36153FC for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:32:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (zzhang@localhost) by sol (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA27801 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 17:21:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:21:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newfs on an existing filesystem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just for curiosity, if I newfs on an existing filesystem, will the contents of the old filesystem be erased completely? I guess that the existing filesystem must be unmounted before doing so. If using same parameters in newfs as in the old filesystem, the contents of the old filesystem will be saved (I have to do a fsck though). Am I right? Thanks for any help. -------------------------------------------------- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message