Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:24:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reinstalling And /usr Message-ID: <20040622032432.GD86471@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040622023931.23097.qmail@web52107.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040622023931.23097.qmail@web52107.mail.yahoo.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 21), Rishi Chopra said:
> What is the effect on the /usr partition when reinstalling over an
> installation?
>
> I suffered a kernel panic that wiped my MBR; I'd like to simply
> reinstall with the same partition/slice values - will my /usr
> partition and the data therein still be accessible after
> reinstallation?
Sure, except anything you may have changed in
/usr/{bin,sbin,share,lib,libexec} will get overwritten. Make sure you
elect not to newfs any of your filesytems :) In fact, if you know your
exact mbr info, you should be able to boot the install floppy, go to
the partition editor, set it up, write, reboot, and you're done.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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