From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 23 15:28:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3281065674; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:28:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FEB8FC24; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:28:41 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LTI00M00YZT7300@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:28:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.66.1]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LTI00IGVYZR9G10@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:28:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:28:39 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <201110231523.p9NFNPsW041622@freefall.freebsd.org> To: nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <4EA432A7.90100@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.66.1 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-11, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.10.23.143314, SenderIP=76.210.66.1 References: <201110231523.p9NFNPsW041622@freefall.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110928 Thunderbird/7.0 Cc: kaduk@mit.edu, freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/161051: bsdinstall(8): cannot install on existing partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:28:42 -0000 On 10/23/11 10:23, nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: bsdinstall(8): cannot install on existing partitions > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: nwhitehorn > State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 23 15:22:03 UTC 2011 > State-Changed-Why: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161051 > GNATS deleted the change description for some reason, not sure why. Anyway, I closed this because there doesn't seem to be a good way to tell whether this is something that will cause problems or not. There are many compelling reasons to reuse partitions (e.g. /home) that will cause no problems. There are also a number of dangerous cases (e.g. /usr/local, /, etc.). Sometimes they will be fine (they might have been empty and created by hand), and there doesn't seem to be a good way to distinguish between them all. If there is, I'm happy to put it in and re-open (and re-close) this PR. -Nathan