Partitioning question

Rakhesh Sasidharan rakhesh at rakhesh.com
Thu Aug 9 02:03:08 PDT 2007


Peter Boosten wrote:

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> Alain G. Fabry wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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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