Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:24:19 +1030 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3? Message-ID: <20050101155419.GH34509@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <20041230173656.GA2423@doom.homeunix.org> References: <05F0F09DEB66858D9B452FB8@palle.girgensohn.se> <20041229203601.GD10293@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <FA148342E1CB891D674B768C@palle.girgensohn.se> <20041229210110.GA16903@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <44633F1A12BF90A756A3AB0F@palle.girgensohn.se> <41D323CF.8070701@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20041230173656.GA2423@doom.homeunix.org>
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0n Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:36:56PM +0300, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:38:23PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote:
>> Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>>
>> >I've tried the UPDATING instructions, both locally and remotely (the
>> >latter failed ;-). But really, everything has to be reinstalled, ports
>> >and the lot, so a new install is probably the best way...
>> >
>>
>> That's not so bad. A reinstall means you can newfs your partitions as
>> UFS2 filesystems, which wouldn't be the case if you upgraded 4.10 in-place.
>
>Are there any other advantages of UFS2 over UFS except maximum disk size?
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-April/001444.html
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