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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 1996 00:42:54 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: New nit in 2.2-960501-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199606061512.AAA17592@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199606061416.KAA11572@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Jun 6, 96 10:16:25 am

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Kaleb S. KEITHLEY stands accused of saying:
> > Yes.  It uses an advanced external utility called 'newfs' which has shown
> > a close-to-100% success rate at removing symlinks.
> > 
> > 8)
> 
> You know, I don't find this sort of crap to be very helpful. Good
> thing I'm not paying for it.

It's called humour.  It's something that lots of people _do_ pay for,
and I offered it _free_, in the hope that you might raise a smile over
it.

> I would have been really unhappy if I had run sysinstall and it had 
> newfs'd my disk. REALLY unhappy.

You do get upset easily though.  8(

The point being that sysinstall _asks_ if you want to newfs your
filesystems, indvidually, so you can toast the ones with the old OS on
them, and leave the ones with your data.  I can't think of any more
reasonable way of doing it.  It's certainly not reasonable to expect
it to second-guess every possible change that might have been made to
the system and intelligently remove/move/update things.  That's
_seriously_ hard work.  

It sounds like what you found is a legitimate bogon for the 'upgrade'
case if sysinstall doesn't handle it properly.  Jordan?

> Kaleb KEITHLEY

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