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Date:      Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:34:14 +0200
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Ond=C5=99ej_Majerech?= <oxyd.oxyd@gmail.com>
To:        Attos <attos.janus@gmail.com>
Cc:        Alexander Gryanko <xpahos@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Best way to uninstall X
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2011/4/7 Attos <attos.janus@gmail.com>:
> I think so.
> I'll do back up and start from scratch. Then I'll be sure I have just what I
> need.
> Switching to single user mode, tar, and as Konstantin wrote: rm -rf /*
>

If you do want to go the wipe-all-and-start-from-scratch route, doing
newfs /dev/<your slice> might be a better option. 1) It's faster than
rm -rf /; 2) if you have $HOME on a separate slice, you can avoid
wiping that out by simply not wiping its slice.

Ondra



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