how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3?

Igor Pokrovsky ip at doom.homeunix.org
Thu Dec 30 09:41:13 PST 2004


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?

-ip

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