Leslie Jensen wrote:
I just read in another post about disklayout
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According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment
and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your
partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work.
Before 9.0 fragments and blocks were 2k and 16k which doesn't
play so well with 4k drives.
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I started thinking about the choices I have for upgrading my running 8.3
systems.
I'm aware about of the procedure with freebsd-upgrade and rebuilding all
ports according to man portmaster.
Would you just do the upgrade or would you consider reinstalling?
Would it be beneficial to make a fresh installation?
Thanks
/Leslie
I all ways reinstall from scratch using disc1.iso burned to cdrom as
each new OS Release becomes available to the public. Followed by pkg-add
-r for all my ports. I even use the pkg versions of dependents that are
required by php because I have to recompile the php port to turn on the
apache module and turn off everything else. This way I only compile php
and not its dependents. I have the pkg_add -r commands embedded in a
script that automates the whole procedures. The installed packages stay
at whatever version they are at as of new OS Release time. I do not
update running packages during the life of the installed OS Release.
Been doing this since Release 3.0 without any problems. Install process
takes about 30 minutes. Time for downloading disc1.iso and burning it is
not included in that 30 minutes.
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