From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 8 23:15:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20119 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:15:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx1.cso.uiuc.edu (mx1.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20110 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu) Received: from alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (alecto.physics.uiuc.edu [130.126.8.20]) by mx1.cso.uiuc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA18995; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:14:30 -0600 (CST) Received: by alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id BAA04713; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:10:07 -0600 From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) Message-Id: <199803090710.BAA04713@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Important change warning. (long version) To: john.saunders@scitec.com.au (John Saunders) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:10:07 -0600 (CST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3503882E.C90B6AE3@scitec.com.au> from "John Saunders" at Mar 9, 98 05:11:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Don't know why some people get so emotional about the name of a device. > If FreeBSD is to move forward we all must accept that change is > inevitable. Mike also did a good job of warning us before hand. 3 hours advance notice ? or I just missed something ? ;) > > I also suspect that if you stuff up the make world you could still > boot up in single user mode and correct the situation since it > doesn't read /etc/fstab. Or reboot with the old kernel as suggested. Sitting in front of all your computers you might be forgetting that There are plenty (or at least - quite a few) of people who are doing such upgrades remotely... THat's just emotions. No, serious questions. I am a bit confused: what would be the behavior of an updated system with the disk which was divided as follows: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 31775 24103 5130 82% / /dev/wd0s1g 1004015 558208 365486 60% /home /dev/wd0s2e 63567 19 58463 0% /tmp /dev/wd0s1e 500463 290300 170126 63% /usr /dev/wd0s2f 2980238 645811 2096008 24% /usr2 /dev/wd0s2g 2878330 2485211 162853 94% /usr3 /dev/wd0s1f 98479 2869 87732 3% /var /dev/wd0s1h 98802 23382 67516 26% /var/log Also, If a have an "inherited" computer - how can I tell whether it has an old or a new type of slices without going into /stand/sysinstall .... ? fdisk alone doesn't seem to provide any information about that.. (I am trying to compare a disk which has just one FreeBSD partition, but in one case partitioned in a compatibility way, and in a FreeBSD-dedicated way in the second case). Thanks, IgoR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message