Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:02:21 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Cc: "Alain G. Fabry" <alainfabry@belgacom.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning question Message-ID: <20070809130108.O10872@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <46BABC0A.1020404@boosten.org> References: <20070809065736.GA15402@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> <46BABC0A.1020404@boosten.org>
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Peter Boosten wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alain G. Fabry wrote: >> >> Is it possible after the installation of current on the 3rd partition that I can use my data files >> (home directories) without messing up the permissions/etc? >> > > As long as the UIDs are the same it should work. Yup. And (not sure if this is the default) while installing FreeBSD-current tell it *not* to NewFS to second partition. Else you'd lose whatever home directories+data that are already there ... Regards, Rakhesh
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