how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3?

Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au
Sat Jan 1 07:58:36 PST 2005


    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?

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